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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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.
  • +31623708422 (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.
  • albertdickson@tangana.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "National PostCode" <sus_tnl050@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:43:21 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR REF NOMBER : NM/BC921245/KY14.

BATCH NOMBER : NM/207161/WOP
REF NUMBER : NM/BC921245/KY14.

POSTCODE LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT ROTERSSTRAAT 11, 1018 WB
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Winner,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second
Category draws of THE POSTCODE LOTTO NL.PROMO INT. We are happy to inform
you that you have emerged as a winner under the First Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced
today 31st of October. 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
paart of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 46939,with serial number
472-9768 and lucky numberW-91237-H-67/B4 consequently won in the First
Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of ?2,000,000 (
Two Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.
This is from a total cash prize of ?20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million Euros)
shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and
your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact your claim
agent oiffice immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize
money to a designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and
Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with
your paying bank.

REF NOMBER : NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH NOMBER : NM/207161/WOP.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To
begin your claims, kindly contact the paying bank with
the below information:
********************************************************************************************************
Contact person: Mr. Albert Dickson.
(International Remittance Department).
Reply E-mail:albertdickson@tangana.com
Tel : 0031-623-708-422
Fax : 0031-847-566-979
*****************************************************************************************************
NOTE: All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
Congratulations once again from all our staff, and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Susan Tessier
(Lottery Coordinator).

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