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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 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.
  • es@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <infonl2f@zwallet.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:22:43 -0100
Subject: Your approved batch number: NM/207161/WOP.

BATCH NUMBER : NM/207161/WOP<FONT face="MS Sans Serif">. </FONT>

LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT

ROTERSSTRAAT 11, 1018 WB
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dea<SPAN>r Sir/</SPAN>Madam,

Congratulations to <I>yo</I>u as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category
draw<FONT color=#7eb425>s</FONT> 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 dra<I>ws</I>. The results of the draws hve been officially announced .

Participants were selected through a computer ba<SPAN>llot syst</SPAN>em drawn from 2,500,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Mid<STRONG>dle</STRONG> East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Pro<STRONG>gra</STRONG>m.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 46939,with serial number 472-9768 and lucky number W-91237<U>-</U>H?67/B4 consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sumpay out of 1,0<S>0</S>0,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A w<FONT color=#b13848>in</FONT>ners.

This is from a total cash prize of ?10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Euros) shared am<B>on</B>gst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category<STRIKE>.</STRIKE>

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<EM> a</EM>ward strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to <I>y</I>our account.This is part of our security protocol<S> </S>to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact our paying bank (laa<STRIKE>g</STRIKE>ste Bank) immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of you<U>r</U> choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch <SPAN>numbers. Remember to quote </SPAN>these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them the following informations

Name
Age
Addr<U>e</U>ss
Telephone numbers and fax
Occupation
<S>R</S>EF Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP. <STRONG>
</STRONG>
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your funds are now deposited in the Automated suspence Account of the European Central Bank. Contact the payin<SPAN>g Bank immediately. T</SPAN>o begin your claims, kindly contact the paying bank with the below infor<STRIKE>m</STRIKE>ation:

***********************************************
Mr. OTLOM STOPEN

Email: laagsteservi<B>c</B>es@gawab.com

Tel:0031-644-957-468
Fax: 0031-847-235-420.


***********************************************
NOTE: All claims are <SPAN>nullifie</SPAN>d after 10 working days f<STRIKE>r</STRIKE>om today if unclaimed Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Yours Sincerely<SPAN>,
Mrs. Angela Fr</SPAN>enz
(Lottery Coordinator).

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