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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "krasloten agency"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",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.
  • +31616585017 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: susan henk <henk081susan@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <krasagency@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:19:59 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION


KRASLOTEN AGENCY, c/o the Krasloten Firm 26b Brendastraat 4523 TG, S'Gravenhage, the Netherlands Ref.No: AIF616268829 Ticket: 627462128TW Batch Number: 75/09/INL, Lucky Number: 2-21-21-43-46 To the e-mail bearer, It gives us great joy to acknowledge you as the recipient of our yearly draw, held on the 30th day of July, 2007.
You have therefore emerged as a recipient in the first category with an award of Two Million United States Dollar (US$2,000,000.00USD) United States dollars in this annual middle of year promo. Your e-mail ID attached to the above stated Ticket No. emerged as one of the winners in our random sampling certified device, confirmed also by eminent representatives of the accredited charity bodies. Revenue for this charitable programmed is derived from non-governmental agencies and major multinational firms cutting across the Europe-American community. In compliance with the sponsoring bodies' consensus, you are to make a remittance of a part of your won fund, not lower than 20-percent to a recognized charity home within your locality, after receiving your award/prize. Please, for all enquiries and further procedure of claim, liase with the designated supervisory agent below:
MR. JAS VAN ROODE E-mail: krasagency@aim.comTel: +31-616-585-017Fax: +31-847-300-404 Congratulations once more, Susan Van Henk (Mrs) Info.Director 11
NB: Kindly indicate your Ticket No. in your reply and also note that this is purely a charity-base promo.
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