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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 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.
  • +31638289346 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: MISS P VAN TOL <admin@luckyemaillottery.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:27:00 +0200
Subject: do you know you can be a winner ...............of up to 500.000,00


DEAR WINNER
I will like to infrom you that you have a chance to have win
500.000.00 that will be send in to bank acccount of your choice .just
like that by playing the promotional email lottery game ,and you know
what you are playing it for free .you dont have to pay money or send
money .to play just go and explorer thie web sit
{www.luckyemaillottery.com } when you get to the pag just clik on fill in to win .
Fill in your e-mail address, sunname , phone number , located Country. :And you
have to make up 5 numbers that will be your chance and winning number and
your lucky number.and you have to keep it good you will need it
later.when you send the five number back to the lottery company we will send
you a REFERENCE NUMBER .that will make you make your Claim. when you
win .so you can never say you dont have a chance to win you juat have to
try it . for more info you can contact the lottery winner .with .
CONTACT - Dr.TOMY SAM
E MAIL - admin@luckyemaillottery.com
TELL NO - 0031-638 289 346
from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions
program.
Sincerely Yours,
DR TOMY SAM
PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR

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