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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:
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • +31616719218 (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.
  • claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LUCKYSTAR LOTTERY BV." <luckystarlotterybv@mail.nu>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:36:33 -0100
Subject: email award notice

LUCKYSTAR LOTTERY BV.


NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING !



Dear Winner,

This email confirms that you have been notified by LUCKYSTAR Lottery BV The
Netherlands of your email lottery winning , the LUCKYSTAR LOTTO-Wheel of
cash was held on 27th of November 2006.

Luckystar Lottery bv. is pleased to say a big congratulations on the
selection of your email coupon number, which was selected among the 45 lucky
prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.NL132478 was selected
by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
various email addresses enrolled by the Lotto-Wheel of cash , and selected
and duly supervised by an official Scrutineer.
Your email ID was included among the 50,000 various international email
addresses which were submitted to us by our partner an international email
provider company.

You are therefore required to file your claim of your winning prize by
contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer of Luckystar Lottery BV.
with your winning information provided below.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Lottery Group: International Prize Group
Prize Amount: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro )


NOTE: all the winning prizes must be claimed by you the beneficiary before
14 working days and is not collectable by any other person.
The deadline is set for Wednesday the 20th of December 2006 for all
November winning prizes due to the upcoming christmas holiday's, winners
must be 18 years or older and you need to identify yourself through a legal
Pasport or ID card to claim your winning prize.

Our office openings are Monday till Friday from 08h30-18h00 GMT, otherwise
you can contact us through e-mail and we will reply ur mail or contact you
as soonest.

Mrs.Patricia Wijnen

Claims processing officer
Luckystar Lottery BV.
PALEISSTRAAT 5
2514 JA DEN HAAG
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL: +31-616-719-218
FAX: +31-847-262-754
Email:claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu

Charities - Beneficiaries of cash winnings are given a newsletter after the
prize pay out, as determined by the Charity Allocation Committee of
Luckystar.
In addition to this distribution,we would like to ask your attention to
help to donate between 10% and 25% of your winning prize for the Stake in
most Luckystar games and is payable by the beneficiary to the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or to its order.


Congratulations once again from our staff on your winning prize ,we hope
you will partake in our forth coming LUCKYSTAR Lottery.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
Luckystar Lottery BV.
The Netherlands

NB: all response should be mailed to claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu , Head
Claims processing Officer Patricia Wijnen.

Anti-fraud resources:

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