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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.
  • nerinlawassocial@fsmail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: NERIN MELVIN <franceeuromillioloto@myway.com>
Reply-To: nerinlawassocial@fsmail.net
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:55:39 +0200
Subject: YOU ARE A WINER


www.lotto.nl
Suite 179 1007
28 rue du roi de sicile
75004 paris fance
(Customer Services)
Ref: DEfr/9383/8161/99
Batch: GI/SE12-59
Government Accredited Licensed lottery promoters.
International Promotions/Prize Award Department
Login to www.lotto.nl

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the national lottery held on the 19th December, 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year national lotto game draw
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 euro (one million euro) only. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers:

1, Ticket
2, Batch 7499-4206-5876
3, Ref: 739801527-Nll
4, lucky numbers 94-1-537-97-31-809

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your 1,000,000 euro would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact

Advocate Green Haward
Email: (nerinlawassocial@fsmail.net) Nerin law & Associates

This will enable the office of nerin & asscociates to send the claims application form (A4) to you the Beneficiary.you can confirm your winnings when you LOGIN TO http://lottery.co.uk/res
For 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 claimed not later than Decemeber 25th, 2005, after this date, unclaimed funds will be returned to the national Lotto
Good luck from me and members of staff of the lotto nl.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Maria Rooney
Online coordinator for lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam