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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.
  • +31642858171 (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.
  • intercafbv@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • petersonbrugg2007@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "intercontinental allaince" <intercafbv@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:42:07 +0200
Subject: INTER CONTINENTAL ALLIANCE FINANCE & SECURITIES.


*INTER CONTINENTAL **ALLIANCE** FINANCE & SECURITIES.*
Rondvaartstraat Boulevard 1145Nº 14 C . P 28501,
Amsterdam , The Netherlands .
Tel: +31 64 285 8171
Tel:+02077905341
Fax: +31 847 353 709

E-mail:intercafbv@gmail.com
E-mail:petersonbrugg2007@yahoo.de

*Dear Winner,*

We received your mail and its content was well understood and has been
noted. We wish to use this medium to notify you that the first mail you
received came to you from WINX LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL, which signifies that
you are a winner in their program.

We advised that you send across to this bank all your winning information in

the first e-mail you received from the lottery company, for us to verify you
and know that you are the actual winner to this said lottery won prize. We
would also want you to furnish this bank your names and your telephone and
fax number, as well as your winning numbers too, so that we can get across
to you after the verification exercise.

On behalf of the members of Inter Continental Alliance Finance and
Securities,
we say congratulations once more as we await your immediate response.

Yours sincerely,
Meldred Baker (Mrs.)
For Mr. Peterson Brugg.
(Remittance Department).

NOTE: Your winning information's are vital and should be kept very
confidential
to you, to avoid someone else claiming your winnings.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam