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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +31647988154 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • delotton@netscape.net
  • cmdelotto@netscape.net
  • cmdelotto@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: De Lotto Netherlands International <DeLottoN@netscape.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:45:09 +0200
Subject: Congratulations, Your Email Won !!!

FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "C" WINNERS

FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
DE LOTTO NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL
LAAN VAN HOORNWIJCK 503 3589 BG RIJSWIJK
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
PHONE:0031-647988154
FAX: 0031-847535141
E-MAIL:DeLottoN@netscape.net

Dear Winner,

RE: PREMIER WEB BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final
draws of De Lotto
Netherlands International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was
conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet.
No tickets were sold as a result of bonuses gathered from ticket winners to be
offered to the entire
public freely. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged
as one of five winners in
the category "C" with the following numbers:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Serial Number:26371545-LNI/2004
Ticket Number:54866235

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
€450.000.00.( FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each.
This is from a total payout of €2.250.000.00 (TWO MILLION,TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
EURO
ONLY). Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transfered to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your Prize winnings, you are advised to
contact our claims manager for
category "C" winners with your ref, batch and ticket numbers with the
information below:

Dr. Richmond Berkly (claims manager)
Phone: 0031-647988154
Fax:0031-847535141
E-mail:CMDeLotto@netscape.net

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed before 2nd of November 2005. After this date
all unclaimed funds
would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference
information in all
correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially
your reference and ticket
numbers. (This is important in order to avoid double claims as De Lotto
Netherlands will not be
responsible for a second claim).
Anybody under the age of 18 and members of De Lotto Netherlands and affiliate
agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Kim Garcial (vise president)
De Lotto Netherlands International

NB:To make your claim please contact our claims manager:
Dr Richmond Berkly
Phone: 0031-647988154
FAX:0031-847535141
E-mail:CMDeLotto@netscape.net

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