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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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")
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • dpafinancial@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • mcxbiz@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Basten Van Leeuw" <infoluckydaywinning@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:10:58 +0800
Subject: Urgent Notification/contact




LUCKDAY LOTERIJ INT. Bv,
Affiliate of DELOTTO NL
Award/Prize Dept,
Beverwijk, The Netherlands.

Ref: MCX /2852306/06
Batch: DPA /87403/NED

Urgent Notification
Attention: Winner,
We happily announce to you on our recently concluded draw of LUCKDAY
LOTERIJ INT. Bv(Affiliate of DELOTTO NL), online Sweepstakes International
program held on the 26th of June, 2006
and that you are one of the FIVE LUCKY WINNERS and your email address is
attached to

-Serial Numbers #: M384/541/182D
-Ref # : MCX/2852306/06
-SecurityFile #: DPA/1907/124/007
-Lucky numbers #: 1-9-9-71-43-05-8,

which subsequently won in the 2nd category. As a result of this, you have
been approved to claim a total sum of $1,000,000(ONE MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS)in cash credited to
security-file numbers-DMX/802106/NL from a total Cash of 20million United
States Dollars.
Be informed that all participants were selected randomly from World Wide
Web-sites through computerized ballot system drawn from over 70,000
individuals and corporate bodies that are listed online.No tickets were
sold.
This promotion takes place Monthly and it is sponsor by Micro-soft,Dell
,Grundig Electronics,Acer, Shells, Infosys etc to mention but a few and
the sole purpose of this program is to encourage computer globalization.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
the lucky winners in the 2nd Category and 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.
Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our European
booklet representative office as indicated in this notification.
In view of this, your winning sum of $1,000,000(One Million United States
Dollars)would be released to you by our payment/representatives in your
preferred mode of payment.
Please,to file in for your claim,contact our Claim Agents:

Dr Gills Wiltord of DPA/MCX CONSULTANCY AGENCY.
Reply-Email: dpafinancial@netscape.net
mcxbiz@myway.com
Please,remember that all winnings must be claimed within 15 days prior to
the receipt of this notification and after this period all unclaimed fund
will be declared null and void.
Please, remember to furnish our claim agents with the following
winning/claim requirements:

1. Full Names & Address
2. Sex
3. Age
4. Tel/Fax Numbers.
5. occupation.

Due to mix-up, you are advise to quote your reference and Batch numbers in
all correspondence as this will avoid delay and complications in the
processing of your winning.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your winning fund is remitted
to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.This is important as a case of double
claim will not be tolerated.
Also staff and members of an affiliated agencies are not eligible to
participate in this program.Please be warned.

Yours faithfully,
Dirik Van Leeuw
Lottery Manager
DPA/MCX CONSULTANCY AGENCY:
Reply-Email: dpafinancial@netscape.net
Alternative Reply Email: mcxbiz@myway.com

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This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information. The
information is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named
above.
If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure,
copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have
received this electronic transmission in error,
please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the
material from your computer.

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