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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:
  • "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.
  • +31630885081 (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.
  • hillstafinance@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cynthia@husan3.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:22:53 +0100 (CET)
Subject: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT


INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY"C" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the
Third Category draws of THE NETHERLANDS GAME BOARD. We
are happy to
inform you that you have emerged a winner under the third
Category,
which is part of our promotional draws. The draws was
officially
announced/released on the 5th of November, 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
245139, with serial number 423-64433 drew the lucky
numbers W-620177-H°
83/J4 and consequently won in the third Category.
You have therefore
been awarded a lump sum pay out of 500,000 (Five
Hundred Thousand Euros), which
is the winning payout for Category C
winners.This is from a total cash
prize of 10,000,000.00 Million Euros
shared amongst the first twenty (20)
lucky winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
The 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 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.
Do contact your claims
agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize
money to a designated account
of your choice:
You are advised to
contact the agents by email/telephone.
NOTE: For quick reference
and
identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember
to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims
agent.
REF Number: NM/DE921245/JU14
COUPON No: NM/207161/WOD.
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Mr.Abu P.Davies.
AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.
TELEPHONE: +31-630-885-081
FAX: +31-847-547-368
Email: hillstafinance@netscape.net
***********************************************
All winnings must be
legalized to complete the claim process/transfer.This is to be covered
by the beneficiary.Also,
you have two weeks to from the date of this
publication to claim your
prize or forefeit your winnings.
Congratulations once again from all
our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.
Sincerely Yours,
Cynthia Husan(Dr).
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR.

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