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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.
• 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.
  • +31613795118 (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.
  • claimsdivision11@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <payoffice06@ny.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:13:04 -0500
Subject: LUCKTSTAR E-GAMES PROMO:WINNING NOTIFICATION...CONGRATULATIONS!

     de     n      e      t       h       e       r       l       a         n         d         s

                                           LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES   

Daalwijk 813, Amsterdam 1102 AA, Netherlands

Tel: +31-613-795-118 Fax: +31-847-520-740

DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES

      Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

 

NOTIFICATION OF  PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by  DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES LOTTERY BY DE Netherlands your email lottery winning for 2006 LUCKYSTAR LOTTERY - Wheel E-game held on Monday 10TH July 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.NL132478 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lottery-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI Lottery Group: Consolation Prize GroupPrize Amount: 1,500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro Only)You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning information provided above within 14 working days.

  Email:claimsdivision11@netscape.net
Fax: 31-20-524-8084

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES.

Regards,
Mr.Van Lackof
(Lottery Coordinator)

 

                                                                           

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