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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +34692967211 (Spain, 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.
  • navisag@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "realcampo realcampo" <realcampo42@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: navisag@aim.com
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 20:01:07 +0200
Subject: Attention:Winner,

Attention:Winner,
Euro Million Loteria
Paseo De La Castillano
17-19,28008 Madrid Spain
Ref: AAA/491OXI/07
Batch: 12/ 25/0304

This is the official result of the Euro Million
Loteria Espanol 2007 PROGRAM. held on 1. of May,
2007.Your e-mail address drew the winning lucky
numbers:44, 33, 16, 76, 21, 11. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of 550,000 (Five
hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros) in cash
credited.To file for your claim please kindly
provide the following informations and send it to our
Fiduciary Agent who shall clear you as a winner.

1)FULL NAMES
(2)PHONE NUMBERS
(3)ADDRESS

Mr.Jone Sanchez
Navis Express Agency,S.L
Tel No: +34-692-967-211
Tel No: +34-634-002-559
E-mail:navisag@aim.com

Note : You will be require to pay for the issuance of your
legalization winning certificate only.The certificate is your
legal prove/guarantee.Congratulations once again from
all our staff and thank you for believing on email
communication and also for being part of our promotion
program.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 14days

Sincerely Yours,
Mr.Cristin Fenado
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR

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