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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.
• 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.
  • +31645535270 (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.
  • diretkbank1@aol.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "millionlotto2007" <millionlotto2007@walla.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:44:37 +0700
Subject: angelica

VODAFONE NL PROMOTIONS.
LOTTERY AND GAMING CENTRE
P.O.Box 257
Rossendale-Holland.
www.vodafone.nl

FREE EMAIL COMPUTER BALLOT EASTER BONANZA. (COUPON WINNING NUMBER:
{AGH-25721600}

Dear Winner,
You have won the sum of 2.000.000 (One Million Euros) from the Vodafone
database of internet email users held today, from which your email
Address was randomly balloted which came out attached to the winning coupon
number AGH-12721600.
This lottery is a promotional program by VODAFONE.NL PROMOTIONS to
advertise to the world its existence.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from
All over the world, as part of our international promotions program, which
we intend to conduct several times a year.
We hereby contact you to claim your winning amount quickly as this is a
free email computer ballot New Year bonanza lottery promotion. Failure
To claim your winning will result to rollover or reversion of the winning
sum.
We also use this medium to notify you that the expiring or lapse date to
claim your winning prize is on the 10 April 2007.
A copy of this message has been sent to our payout Bank Direkt Bank NL.
To claim your winning prize, contact the transfer manager with your coupon
winning number above.
Here is the contact information of the Bank
Direkt Bank NL,
www.direktbank.nl
Evertsenstr 135, 1057 HL Amsterdam
Attention: Fied Christopher
E-mail:diretkbank1@aol.co.uk
Tel: +31-645-535-270
Fax: +31-847-516-025

Please call for verification and provide the following below and keep this
winning notification message confidential away from public notice
To prevent double claims and impersonation until after remittance/payment
to you.

COUPON WINNING NUMBER: {AGH-25721600}.
Name:
Nationality:
Country of
Residence:
Occupation:
Tel number:

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program. For verification and procedures
Contact by calling the bank.

Regards,
Ernesta De Bonino.(Mrs.)
www.vodafone.nl
This message, including all attachments transmitted with it, is for the use
of the addressee only.

It may contain proprietary, confidential and/or legally privileged
information.
No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission.
If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly,
use, disclose,
Distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have
received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from
Your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.

Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the content in this
E-mail is strictly forbidden.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam