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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • goldfinancetrust2006@excite.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • financestanard1@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gilbert kerry" <spongroup05@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:41:26 -0700
Subject: YOU HAVE WON!!

YOU HAVE WON!!
LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT

Koningen Julianaplein 12, 2456 BD
Denhaag, The Netherlands
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Sir/Madam,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the first
Category draws of THE LOTT NL.PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you
have emerged as a winner under the First Category, which is part of our
promotional draws. The results of the draws hve been officially announced .
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 34563,with serial number
643-1234 and lucky number W-789993/B4 consequently won in the First
Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000
(One Million Euros), which is the winning pay out for Category A winners.
This is from a total cash prize of ?10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Euros) shared
amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and
your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by Participants/nonparticipants
of this program. Please contact our paying bank (leed capital Bank)
immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and
Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with
your paying bank.Also give them the following informations
Name
Age
Address
Occupation
REF Number: NM/BC64367/KY23
BATCH No: NM/34w45/WOP.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims,
kindly contact the paying bank with the below information:
***********************************************
Contact person:Mr Arnold Hansman
E-mail: goldfinancetrust2006@excite.com
E-Mail:financestanard1@netscape.net
Tel: :31-644-933-368
Fax: :31-84-72-212-34

***********************************************
NOTE: All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed
Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being
part of our promotions
program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Arnord Hansman:
(Lottery Coordinator).

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