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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!

Fraud email example:

From: "EURO MILLION LOTTERY" <euromillott06b@post.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:25:41 +0300
Subject: You are a winner in our programme.

You are a winner in our programme.
Contact your Paying Bank.
Remember to state your winning information.
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Europe Million Lottery Inter.
Osdroplien 450, 1120AH ,
Belgium.
Affiliate of Europe National Lottery.
Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON Euro 1,000,000.00.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of EuroMillions Lottery
Inter., which was held on the 24th March. 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 834509819, with Prize
Number: 237359446 drew a prize of Euro 1,000,000.00 (One Million
Euros).
This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.
You will receive the sum of Euro 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) from
our authorized bank.
Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time
limited placed on the payment of your prize:
Euro 1,000,000.00, we advice that you keep all information about this
prize confidential until your funds: Euro 1,000,000.00 have been
transferred to you by our bank.
You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with
therelease of your funds to your person.
This program has been abused severally in past, so we are doing our
best to forestall further occurrence of false claims.
This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000
spectators.Your e-mail address was selected and came out first by a
e-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and
corporate e-mail addresses).
This program is sponsored by CFI Networks to compensate faithful
internet suffers around the globe.
Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners.With your
permission, your e-mail will alsobe included in the next sweepstake of
Euro 5Million.
You must claim your prize: Euro 1,000,000.00 not later than 14-days
from the moment you receive this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank;
please contact them immediately, and quote your winning and personal
information now, and in all your correspondence with the bank.

Here is the contact information:

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ATLANTIC CAPITAL FINANCE INC.
Rotterdam-Netherlands
Bank Rep: Mr. Paul Graham
(Director of Operations)
Tel: 00 31-64-364-2150
Fax: 00 31-84-748-0199
E-mail: info@atlanticapitfns.com

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Furnish them with the following:
(i). your name(s),
(ii) Your telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Your contact address
(iv) Your winning information (including amount won).
Congratulations.
Angelic Van Theiry.(Mrs)
Coordinator.Europe Million Lottery
International..................................................

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