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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 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.
  • carlseguros@ureach.com
  • clienteinfo@seguros-es.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PROMOCION DE NACIONAL <claimlotteryinfo@message.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:39:06 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF RESULT (CONGRATULATION!!!)


LOTERIA DE NACIONAL
REF: ECOLOGY & HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
REF: CODE: 06/ESP/EU34/HGF
CC. Carl Realty Asociados de Seguros y Financieros.

CONGRATULATION!!

Lotería De Nacional drawn held on 9th, March, 2006 is out. 3 of the 10 Tickets with ticket Núm. 89339, Núm 82793, Núm 24499, sponsored by Ecology & Heritage Lottery Fund has own a jackpot lottery amount of $1,200,500.00. /$63,009.00,/ $1,100,300.00. I am glad to acquit you that your email profile was tagged among lists of generated lottery pools programme generated by Cascata lottery Email Generator which have finally won you the total of EUR1,100,300.00 deposited in our paying bank with winning Ref Nº: LDN06/EU34/ESP and Batch Nº:87292.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon and reference number. In view of this, all payment will be made through/into European Banks transfer.

All succesuful winner will be required to support the Ecology fund by donating 5% of the winning to support our environment and species, this is the reason for the program.
We advised upon receiving this winning notification to contact our claim broker or Sponsor via fax /telephone or Email, by stating the following information;

FULL NAME:
EMAIL:
BATCH NO:
TICKET NO:
REFERENCE NO:
...................................................................................................
CLAIM AGENT:
Carl Realty Asociados de Seguros y Financieros.
Contact Agent: Walters M. Alberto
Address: Plaza de Centro, 1, 3a, Madrid
28933, Spain.
Tel: 902-250-144
Email: carlseguros@ureach.com
clienteinfo@seguros-es.com
.........................................................................................................
SPONSOR:
CONTACT: ECO GRANT DEPARTMENT
OFFICE:ECOLOGY & HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND
TEL& FAX:011- 44-87-1251-7590
TEL& FAX Nº:011-44-70-4011-9273
EMAIL: infoeco@EcologyFund.net

Winners should respond to this program and notification 10 days from this date of notification as failure to applied for claim within this day will disqualify you from late claim. If you do not recieved confirmation within 24hrs from our agent, please contact your sponsor with the necessary information to avoid delays.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of claims to circumvent problems associated with Fraudulent claims.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

.......................................
Central Lottery Department.
Copyright 1994-2006 Loteria De Nacional
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline
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