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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +31619253449 (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.
  • netpointagents@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: guss derguss <guss@guss.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:24:37 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: YOU HAVE WON CONGRATULATIONS!!!.


YOU HAVE WON CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD.
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE.
Microsoft B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS.
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category in our yearly promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 17th of October 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529, with serial number 337-454 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $1,000,000.00 (One Million United State dollars) only, which is the winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize money from 2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, We request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly confidential from public notice until the process of transferring your won money prize has been completed, and your funds remitted into your bank account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by Participants / Nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.

****************************************************************************************
Dr.Hendrik Van Bos , Mrs Cheryl Klein Huis,
NETPOINT CLAIM MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
TEL/ 0031-619-253-449.
Email:netpointagents@aim.com
****************************************************************************************
You are advised to contact the agents by email. Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification do remember to quote your reference and Batch numbers as below in all your correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/06.
BATCH NUMBER: 16/066/IPD.
Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Sincerely Yours,
Iries Van Guus
Lottery Coordinator.
*MICROSOFT COPY RIGHT 2006 *

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam