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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "NETHERLAND LOTTO" <nl_lotto17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: nl_lotto100@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:37:46 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

LOTTO.NL,
2391 Beds 152 Koningin Julianaplein 21 ,
Den Haag, The Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Mr John watts.
(Lottery Coordinator)
Website: www.lotto.nl

Sir/adam,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL Winners
International programs.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket #:AHMED 00903228100 with prize #
778009/UK drew
($5,000,000.000) which was first in the 2ndclass of the draws. You are to
receive
($5,000,000.000) five Million dollars). Because of mix up in cash pay-outs,
we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your money ($5,000,000.000)
has been fully
remitted to you by our accredited pay-point bank. This measure must be
adhere to avoid loss
of your cash prize - winners of our cash prizes are advised to adhere to
these instructions
to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants. It's
important to note that
this draws were conducted formally, and winners are selected through an
internet ballot system from 60,000 individual and companies e-mail addresses
- the draws are conducted around the world through our internet based ballot
system.


The promotion is sponsored and promoted Lotto NL. We congratulate you once
again. We hope
you will use part of it in our next draws; the jackpot winning is
€85million. Remember, all winning must be claimed withing 14 working days.
After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in
the next sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications remember to quote personal and winning numbers in all
correspondence with us.Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto
NL.


Thank you for being part of our promotional program.For immediate release of
your cash prize to you, please kindly contact our lottery coordinator.


Congartulations once again .
Mr john watts
lottery coodinator
(website:www.lotto.nl)

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