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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +31644945401 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: lois bos <lois@bos2.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:19:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON.


CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON.



FROM: PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF STAATSLOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL.

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY"A" WINNER.
Ref. No.- LSLUK/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
Contact our claims department by email: claimfiles001@aol.com


Dear winner,
Staatsloterij International has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical promotional program. An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44. and consequently won in the First Category(One million United States Dollars).
No tickets were sold. Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category"A" as email addresses were soughted, from a total number of 1,000,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only Seven winners emerged in this category and therefore each are to receive payouts of $1,000,000.00 u.s dollars from the total of $7,000,000.00 usd ( Seven million united states Dollar )
However, every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number,after the cyber lotto selection, the below ticket and reference numbers emerged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- LSLUK/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
ticket number 50941465206-529

To immediately initiate the processing of your prize claim, please contact the under-mentioned at our claims department;

Dr.F.Vincent
Amsterdam-Netherlands.
Email: claimfiles001@aol.com
Tel: +31-644 945 401.

Also quote your Reference/Batch numbers in all correspondence with our claims department.
We congratulate you once again and hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.
Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Mrs.Kate Veldhuizen.
Lottery Coordinator.


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The information in this electronic mail message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the person(s) or addressee(s). Access to this internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, please send it back :claimfiles001@aol.com, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.

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