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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: Linqcategory winnerinfo <linqcategory@linqcategory.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:28:46 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Ref. No. NLW1/BYDT72/2006/781


Ref. No. NLW1/BYDT72/2006/781

LINQLOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION.
Warmoesstraat 141, 2718WG,
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

COORDINATING AND
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

Ref. No. NLW1/BYDT72/2006/781



Dear Winner,


RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAW RESULTS


Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First Category (A)draws of THE LINQLOTERIJ PROMOTIONS PROGRAM. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws officially tookplace on the Wednesday 15TH day of November, 2006 and announced today. All Participants were selected through a computer EMAIL 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. No tickets were SOLD.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 66736253-00172-2672, with serial number 1005-CATA drew the lucky numbers 4-35-88-11 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of €550,000.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros in cash), which is the winning payout for Each Category A winners. This is from the total prize money from €6,000,000 shared among the 8 winners in this category, as well as winners of other consolation prizes.


CONGRATULATIONS!


To begin your claims, you are urgently requested to contact our claims processor (MR. WILCO DE BRUIJN) immediately either by telephone or fax. Make sure you quote to him your reference number and batch number RK006331-37779, to enable immediate confirmation of your winning by the processor.

To file and claim your prize money, you are advised to please contact our regional office's verifications departmental office.
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CONTACT PERSON: MR. WILCO DE BRUIJN
Reply: LINQWINNERS@LINQ.NL
FAX: +31 (0) 847-241-334
LINQLOTERIJ REDEMPTION CENTRE, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
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Upon confirmation, you will have to choose a charity organizasation of your choice, to which you shall give 10% of the total amount won once you receive the winning prize money onto your bank account, as part of our promotions program. Congratulations once again from all of our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Do not hesitate to contact the regional office by FAX should you not get a rapid reply by EMAIL from the above mentioned office.



Sincerely Yours,

MRS. MARRITTA VAN LOOPER.
International/National Coordinator.

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