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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 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.
  • bejesbejescom@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "www.lotto.nl" <lottery006@lottery.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:47:35 -0300
Subject: YOU HAVE WON

www.lotto.nl Suite 120 1007 South/Zuld, 1NL Meppo Holland (Customer Services) Ref: NL/8161/99 Batch: NL/BE12-11 Government Accredited Licensed lottery promoters. International Promotions/Prize Award Department Login to Website: www.lotto.nl We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the national lottery held on the 5th July, 2006. All 10 winning addresses wererandomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this yearLotto. NL game drawConsequently, you have therefore been approved for atotal pay out of 1,000,000 (one million Euros) only. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers: 1, Batch 9484-9006-0076 2, Ref: 637409467-Nll 3, lucky numbers 1-0960-31-444 Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. Inview of this, your 1,000,000 (One Million Euros) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. To file for your claim, please contact Advocate Steven cox *************************************************************************** * Tel: +31 -630 143 359 Fax: +31-84-722-8603 Email:bejesbejescom@netscape.net law & Associates *************************************************************************** * This will enable the office of law & asscociates to send the claims application form (A4) to you the Beneficiary.you can confirm your winningswhen you Login to Website: www.lotto.nlFor security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money 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. Please be warned. Remember, all winnings must be claim not later than July 15th, 2006, after this date, unclaimed funds will be returned to the Lotto. NL CONGRATULATIONS! CALL NOW TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING PRIZE Advocate Steven cox Tel: +31 -630 143 359 Fax: +31-84-722-8603 Email:bejesbejescom@netscape.net law & Associates *************************************************************************** * Note:Send all your reply to bejesbejescom@netscape.net *************************************************************************** * Yours faithfully, Mrs Maria Van Boer Online coordinator Sweepstakes International Program.

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