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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "claims 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.
  • +34669644953 (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.
  • infoclaimdprt@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "oncespanol4@terra.es" <oncespanol4@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:00:36 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?ONCE_ESPA=C3=91OL_SL._?=


ONCE ESPAÑOL SL.
Av. Comunidad de Madrid,
37-41, Las Rozas
28008 Madrid,
REF: AIL/9-17-19-41-46 /MO,
BATCH: PMR/91663/AHK.
http://www.combinacionganadora.com/once.php




RE: FINAL AWARD NOTIFICATION!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the ONCE ESPAÑOL SL Online Promo Programmed held on the 22TH of May 2007.We have been sending this notice to you but this is the last as we are about distributing winnings to winners.

The draw was done electronically with several email addresses provided to this office by Microsoft to enhance the utilization of the internet. Your email address was attached to Reference Number AIL/9-17-19-41-46 /MO, and was picked as one of the ten winning email addresses.

This has qualified you to claim the total cash prize of € 2,000,000(Two Million Euros) in cash credited to file number KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of (12, 000, 000, 00 Euros) shared amongst the first Six (6) lucky winners in this category B. Your winnings will be issued to you as soon as our claims department verifies your winning after you might have filled this payment processing form that stated below. Claims Processing Form for filing of claims.

Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Address:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
Country:
Winning Email Address:

Please note that we do not need your bank account information for you to claim your winnings. You are advised to contact our claims department via these details: Assigned Claims Agent:

CONTACT Mr. Pascal Green
Foreign Transfer Manager
Email: infoclaimdprt@yahoo.es
FOR MORE INFO CALL Tel: +34-669-644-953

Quote Your Reference Number as AIL/9-17-19-41-46 /MO, when you are filing your claims. Congratulations once more from all our members of Staff.


Sir Steven Smith
Online Co-ordinato





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