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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "php-nuke powered site - http://yoursite.com" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +31613573139 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: DE SAP SOFTWARE PROMOTIONS <lottoclaim112@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:47:07 +0700
Subject: MAKE CLAIM BEFORE 20 DAYS..


FROM: DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER. RE:AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION Netherlands International 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. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following:

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

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of 1,500.000.(ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY) each from the total payout. Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred 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 licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the informatiom below:

Mr. peter van smith
Financial Director, DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands Company,De Amsterdamse
Poort Bijlmerplein
888 1102 MG Amsterdam
1000 BV Amsterdam
E-mail:financedirector040@walla.com
Tel:+31-613-573-139
Fax:+31-847-499-708

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims
process,failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings Forfeiture. Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.

(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge your acceptance to be added to our lottery master player database.

(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master players, from all the sponsoring entities.

(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the discretion to be removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from this and subsequent lottery entries.Removal instructions are on every mails.

(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or the illegal use of information about our Players/winners.

Remember to quote your reference informationin
allcorrespondence.Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands International programs
N.B:all response should be mail to financedirector040@walla.com

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