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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.
  • claimsagent_04dfccbv@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Nederlandse LoterijBv" <loterij_nilbv@yahoo.de> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:45:25 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: PRIZE WINNING NOTIFICATION


PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT, NEDERLANDSE INTERNATIONALE LOTERIJ BV
PALEISSTRAAT 55
NL-2500 BP
THE HAGUE
THE NETHERLANDS
PRIZE WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are happy to inform you that the recipient email address has been selected as one of the lucky email addresses in the category "B" of the online lotto conducted by our company NEDERLANDSE INTERNATIONALE LOTERIJ BV here in Hague. CONGRATULATIONS! The cyber-lotto was conducted by a first of its kind automated computer balloting system, where by email addresses (25,000 email addresses), were extracted from all continents of the world. A draw was held in different categories and winners from different parts of the world emerged and are entitled to various cash prizes depending on their different categories. Thus, you/your company with this email address, attached to Ticket number: NIL-B-15-01-05 and a Reference number: NIL-B-3120-01101980-NLBV in the Category B, is entitled to a lump payout of €2,500,000.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros) from the total of €12,500,000.00 (TWELVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS) available for five winners in this category.
To immediately claim your prize, please contact our Category "B" financial agents DUTCH FINANCE & CONTRACTING COMPANY BV , below are the contact information of their financial director:
Mr. Van Leroy
Financial Director
DUTCH FINANCE & CONTRACTING COMPANY BV
NOORDBARGERSTRAAT 77
NL-7812 AA EMMEN
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel/Fax: +31-84-710-4259
E-mail: claimsagent_04dfccbv@yahoo.de
Provide Prize reference number-NIL-B-3120-01101980-NLBV and winning ticket number-NIL-B-15-01-05 for confirmation. In your best interest(s), you must initiate contact within two weeks of receipt of this correspondence. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Vivienne Hordijk
Promotions Manager
NEDERLANDSE INTERNATIONALE LOTERIJ BV

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