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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")
  • "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 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.
  • onceclaimagent@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "west morgan" <westmorgan18@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: onceclaimagent@aim.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:36:32 -0800
Subject: KINDLY CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.

Dear Winner.

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the result of once
promo Award promotion. We are happy to inform you that your email
address have emerged a winner of one million Euros
(1,000,000.00) Euros.
NOTE: to file for your claim, please contact the claim agent
below on email.
OFFICE
LOTERIA TRUST AGENCY S.L
Mr.PAUL VANFRANT
Emails:onceclaimagent@aim.com
Tel:+34646468264

Find below your promotion date, Reference and Batch numbers. Remember
to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent
Mr.PAUL VANFRANT

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8156/06
BATCH NUMBER: 15/051/IPD/ES
Lucky Number: 2-5-0-4-9
CLAIMS REQURIEMENTS:
1.Name in full
2.Address
3.Nationality
4.Age
5.Sex
6.Occupation
7Phone
8Fax
9.Present Country
Please note that you will be required to pay for the issurance of
your legal back up legalization/notarization document in court.
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days,Anybody
under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.
Sincerely Yours,
Mrs.HELLEN MORGAN
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR.
http://loteria.com/once.php

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