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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.
  • +34696331297 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "loteria" <primitiva52@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:39:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE !!!










LA PRIMITIVA ESThe file Refnumber: KE/34/0188/GO Result winning numbers: 3-11-16-21-29-50-88 E-mail ticket number: DD416/91/20 CONGRATULATION !!! We are please to inform you as one of the lucky winners in the email lottery programme draw of the LOTERIA PRIMITIVA held on the 28th of March 2007. Consequently,you have therefore been approved a MEGA JACK POT of (1.350,000,00). One Million Three hunderd and Fifty Thousand Euros.Your email address attached to a Ticket NUM:DD/416/91/20 with lucky number W-02918-54/A8.For immediately claim of your prize,contact the claim/paying agent below. LA PRIMITIVA TRUST AGENCY S.L ============================== Mr.Marcus Antonio TEL : 0034-696-331-297 REPLY TO : loteriaprimit@netscape.netOnce again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS !!! Sincerely, Anna Jose Louis. Promotions Manager ALL RESPOND SHOULD BE SEND TO THE ABOVE E-MAIL.


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