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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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.
  • +31615401054 (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.
  • meridiantfc@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ywbEuromillones Lottery Win <xlnweuromilloneslottodraws@europe.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:48:32 +0200
Subject: EUROMILLONES LOTTERY SPAIN, EMAIL LOTTERY WIN NOTIFICATION hhgv

EUROMILLONES LOTTERY
Don Pedro de Luna 67
50 - 010 VALENCIA
SPAIN

AWARD/PROMOTIONAL DEPARTMENT

http://www.losmillones.com/loto/euromillones/analisis.html

We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the 10 lucky winners in the email lottery programme
draw of the EURO MILLONES held on the 22nd October, 2006. The late release of this result was due
to difficulties we encountered in sorting out mixed up numbers and email addresses. All 10 winning
addresses was randomly selected from a batch of 500,000 international emails. Your email address
emerged alongside with 9 others as a category "2a "winner in this year's Euromillions award Draw.

Most recently our foundation set up the NEW HOPE EMAIL LOTTERY to give out
prizes based on the computer ballot system (THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO
ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A WINNER).

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a MEGA JACK POT of
€950,000.00 euro (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro) only .

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i)the file Ref number: AP/04679/MPP
(ii)Result winning numbers: 10-28-40-47-48-6-8
(iii)email ticket number: 2a/754/22/76

Your play coupon fall within our Europe Payment Bank, therefore you must
contact our Fiduciary Lottery Claim Agent for the payment/Remittance of your Lottery Win prize money.
See the details below;

=========================
Mr.Frank Wargna
Foreign Service Manager,
MERIDIAN FINANCE B.V
Tel: +31-615-401-054
+31-615-173-299
Fax: +31-847-169-176
EMAIL: meridiantfc@aim.com
===========================
You must claim your lottery prize money within one week of recieving this notification. After this claim time
limit, all funds will be returned as unclaimed and will be added to our March Bingo Mega Draw of
€2,500.000. As a winner in this category, your winning email address has automatically qualify you for the
next draw
Quote your Reference number and including this details;

(a). Your Full name; ......................................
(b). Contact Address .......................................
(c). Name of Country........................................
(d). Date of Birth ............................................
(e). Tel/Fax Numbers .......................................
(f). File Ref Number Lottery Win Category ............
(g). Amount Won. ...........................................
(h). Email Tickect Number. ................................
(i). Profession. ................................................

Your prize award has been insured and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements,
verifications and validations. To avoid uneccessary delay and complications you are adviced to fill the
clearance and verification form above correctly and submit to our licensed and accredited claims agent

Once again on behalf of all our staff,CONGRATULATIONS!!!.This promotion
programm is sponsored by Orient Software and Microsoft to encourage the use of internet in research.


For safety measures and to avoid fruadulent claims you are adviced to keep
all your winning informations and notification confidential and keep away from
third parties till your Price winning remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming by some participants of this
program.

Sincerely,

Maria Jose (Mrs).
Promotions Manager
EuroMillones, Spain

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This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may
be privileged.It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above.

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