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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!
• 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.
  • +31642873032 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Email Lotto <emaillottonl@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:19:18 +0100
Subject: Email Lotto Final Result (2007).

From Caecilia D. Lloyd (Mrs) (Claim Prize)
The Netherlands Email Lotto
Middenweg 97, 1098 AG
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
REFERENCE #:67/80/IPD
BATCH #: EGGS-541-623-782

Sir/Madam
Being officially assigned to select winners across the globe, the
management is pleased to inform you of the result of the Email Lotto (EL)
The Netherlands, Winners of the International E-mail lottery held on the
13th Febuary 2007 and result where release on the 16 February,2007. Your
E-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with serial main
number 345- 790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which
consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for
the sum of $500.000.00 (Five hundred thousand dollars).


Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email
addresses and names from all over the world.

This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Sotware Companies in order to
enhance and promote the use of Internet Explorer Users and Microsoft-wares
around the globe.

To file for your claim, please
contact our authorized payment agent:
Mr. Charles Greenem
Deputy-Manager (Payment office)
Cbgb Finance
Email:cbgbfinance@cbgb.net
Tel:+31 642 873 032
Fax:+31 847 599 024

Congratulations once more
from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our
promotional program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Caecilia D. Lloyd.
International Online Coordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam