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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +31649206014 (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.
  • slideprijzen@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "Sandra Blaze Hoornbeck" <intl_game_lotto_winner@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:28:56 +0000
Subject: FIRST NOTIFICATION

FIRST NOTIFICATION
THE SLIDE CIRCUIR AWARD ORGANIZATION
THE HEINEKEN PRIZES
THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF
HUMANITARIAN WORKS


FIRST NOTIFICATION

This is an award offered to you by a group of organizations amongst others
those mentioned above. The first edition of this award scheduled to begin
with the year 2006 took place on the 2nd of January and will run through the
month of January 2006.

The organizers of this award program have as objective to raise awareness on
climate change issues which is among the most pervasive threats to the web
of life, and to trigger the international community to address its root
causes and limit its impact on the planet.

Smart energy choices made by individuals and businesses can dramatically
reduce CO2 emissions and slow global warming. Without action, climate change
will cause the extinction of countless species and destroy some of the
world's most precious ecosystems. The scientific world is therefore
concerned with creating awareness, the world over, on these sensitive
issues.

Your success at this award was made possible through the selection of your
email address by a computer software ballot program that took place on the
2nd of January 2006 in which 20 email addresses were drawn from all over the
world and are therefore eligible to received cash awards ranging from $
10,000.00 USD to $ 2.500 million USD (category A to D)

You are consequently informed that your email address emerged in category(C)
thereby attracting an awarded cash of $ 850,000.00 Eight Hundred And Fifty
Thousand United State Dollars.

You are therefore advised to contact the processing office immediately upon
receipt of this message for more information concerning data verification,
and subsequent remittance of this award to you.

It is important to note that this is privileged information intended only to
the above named beneficiary whose email address has been drawn by digital
ballot soft ware under SECURITY CODE no below.

XXX SCP/001/ACC/01/2006 XXX

Please contact our under listed processing agents within five working days
upon receipt of this information to immediately claim this important award.
You are required to mention the above SECURITY CODE AND YOUR CATEGORY in
every correspondence addressed to the remittance agents

MR. FRANS BAUWELL
CLAIM MANAGER

MR. TONY MC DADE
PUBLIC RELATIONS

TEL: + 31 649 206 014
FAX: + 31-84-711-3323

EMAIL: slideprijzen@netscape.net


CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Sincerely,

EMELDA SINLEY BOSMAN,
PROMOTION MANAGER

SLIDE PRIJZEN PROMOTION AWARD

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