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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.
• 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.
  • +31629248546 (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.
  • dkoopman637@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • powerball637@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "POWER BALL LOTTO. BV" <powerball05@tiscali.it>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:56:49 -0300
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!

POWER BALL LOTTO. BV
POWER BALL-WHEEL E-GAME 2006

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the POWERBALL INTER
LOTTO BV The
Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006 Powerball Lotto - Wheel
E-game held on 1st of
january 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number
which was selected among
the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with
Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and
was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from
the 50,000 different email
addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among
the 50,000 different email
addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider
companies.

Prize Ref No.: PBL/UK/84733/NL
Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: 2,800,000 Euros Only

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by
contacting the Lottery Claims Processing
Officer with your winning information provided below.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr. Koopman Duke
Email: dkoopman637@netscape.net
powerball637@yahoo.com
Tel: +31 629 248 546.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning, we hope you will
partake in our forth coming Powerball Lotto-Wheel Email-games.

Yours truly,
Mrs.Yoost van Peterson,
(Lottery Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

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