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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • " lotto international " (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +31616939667 (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.
  • victorroybosman@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: rosemar@rosemarken.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:01:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FILE REF NO: NL/451/28798372/AM.


FILE REF NO: NL/451/28798372/AM.
STAATLOTERIJ INTL.
Desk of Approval/Game
Gaming Board Department
THE NETHERLANDS
BATCH NO: NL/56894/180/07HLL.
FILE REF NO: NL/451/28798372/AM.

!CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER!

The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Promotion Department of the STAATLOTERI J(STAAT LOTTERY INTL,wishes to congratulate you over your success as one of the PRIZE WINNERS of 1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION EUROS ONLY) of the StaatLoterij lotto International Promotion (SLP) that was held on the 16th June 2007 in Amsterdam,Netherlands.The result released today,hence official notification!

The selection process was carried out through a random selection in our computerized e-mail selection system from a database of over 950,000 individuals and companies e-mail addresses drawn from all the continents of the world which your email,was among the category 'A' lucky winners.Your email address was attached to File Reference number: NL/071/HW48MG/007 and Batch No. NL21584001ST.

Most recently the foundation set up the NEW HOPE LOTTERY(STAAT LOTRIJ) to give out prizes based on the computer balloting system (THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A WINNER). You the beneficiary of the winning email would be responsible for the VETT/APPROVAL DOCUMENT CHARGES (FEES) of your lucky WINNING EMAIL ADDRESSE CHANGED to your FULL NAMES, before your winning prize can be transferred to your designated account of your choice.

As soon as we receive your responsible to this notification,our accredited will start immediately to process your prize claim.Be informed that as Non-resident winner,your prize must be duly notarized at the Area Court here in the Netherlends.

To claim your prize,contact the claim/paying agent on the telephone number & email below:

CONTACT PERSON.
======================================MR. VICTOR ROY BOSMAN
(Foreign Service Manager).
TEL: 0031-616-939-667.
CONTACT E-MAIL: victorroybosman@aim.com

N.B: Terms and conditions to claiming your prize:
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1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claim/paying agent above.

2. Indicate your full names and address,Country,Contact telephone numbers,mobile,fax number,occupation and your Batch and Reference numbers to your claim/paying agent above.

3. Your winning prize is not DEDUCTABLE until it has been fully processed,approved and transferred to your designated account of your choice by the claim/paying Agent above.

The above claim/paying Agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your winning prize to you.Also note that you are to contact and process your winning prize not later than two weeks, after this date if you do not contact and process your winning prize,all funds will be returned to the NETHERLANDS' GAMING CONTROL BOARD (NGCB)
All informations have to be kept out of public until your winning prize has been processed and transferred to your designated account of your choice;this is to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of the programme by some participants.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Rosemary Van Ken.
Online co-ordinator.

Note: Responses must be forwarded to the above given e-mail adress as we cannot reply any mail to this address.

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This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above.
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