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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.
  • +31626541160 (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.
  • staatsdesk6@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "staat notice" <mstaatspr94@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:03:52 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON A PRIZE

MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM

Date: 18th April 2007
Ref Nr: MSTL/CN/2628/YT
Batch Number: 26/386/UTR.
Serial Number 25742-86
Coupon No. MSTL-146478972197

Dear Email Bearer,

CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!

Europe/America private international e-games organizers and Co-sponsors,
MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ, officially bring to your notice of the final draw
result of April -2007 MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ wheel E-game which was
conducted at our international corporate office complex in The Netherlands.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give
outprizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek
to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It
major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literature projects in the
social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science,
research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on
the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45
lucky consolation prize winners.

Your email ID identified with Coupon No. MSTL-146478972197 and was selected
by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was
included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner
international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of €550,000.00 (Five Hundred and fifty
thousand Euros) only. The MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ Group have approved a
payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to
you by the official Payment Agency Board.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and
provide additional information and processes for the claims of your
consolation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please contact
the DPU Information Officer Mr. Alan Foster who has been assigned to assist
you.

Contact
NAME: Mr. Alan Foster
E-mail: staatsdesk6@aim.com
Tel :0031-626-541-160


You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Phone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
coupon Number:

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming MICROSOFT /
STAATSLOTERIJ Email-games.

Regards,

Anita Raynes(Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)

NB: In accordance with the MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ E-games policy and
regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky
consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that
is proprietary,privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from
disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached
to the lucky numbers along with the winning information’s you are not
authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any
part of it.

_________________________________________________________________
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