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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 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")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • +31630852889 (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.
  • franknoma@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "snow ball" <snowball100@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:33:45 +0000
Subject: CONTACT THE CLAIM AGENT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAVE WON!!!

CONTACT THE CLAIM AGENT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAVE WON!!!

ATENTION,

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: PRIZE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Trust 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. 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/2005

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of TWO
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY ($2,500,000.00) each from the
total payout.

Your prize award 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 information below:

MR. FRANK NOMA
Financial Director,
TRIPPLE CLAIM FINANCE.
De Amsterdam Port Bijlmerplein
888 1102 MG Amsterdam

E-mail: franknoma@netscape.net

TEL: +31-630-852-889
FAX; +31-847-535-838

You are expected to provide the following details below to your claims
agent:

1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) AGE
4) MAILING ADDRESS
5) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
6) EMAIL ADDRESS

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. 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 batch
numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained).

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.Jennifer Adams
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Trust International Lottery

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam