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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:
  • "netherlands gaming board"
• 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 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.
  • koeman.ruud@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms.Marian Gelder." <Ms.MarianGelder@aol.nl>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:30:17 +0700
Subject: TOTO KRASLOTEN LOTERIJ WINNING JACKPOT.



TOTO KRASLOTEN LOTERIJ
Laan Van Hoorrnwijck 55
2289 DG RIJSWIJK Netherlands.
Website: www.lotto.nl

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Toto Krasloten Loterij €2.5M (Two Million Five Hundred
Thousand Euro) Online Promotions held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on 2nd
of November 2007.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
200,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies selected by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were
sold.

The selected e-mail addresses were attached to tickets numbers which were
spinned by our ballot machine.After this automated computer ballot, your
e-mail address attached to ticket number 0001680003381 emerged as one of
five winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
REFERENCE N0: CHOL07/000031907.BATCH N0: BC-348/0700731

You have therefore been approved for a payment of €500,000:00 (FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND EURO) cash prize which will be paid to you upon authorization by
The Netherlands Games Board.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims
has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program.

You should contact our accredited agent that will assist you to obtain the
authorization of your email winning payment file from the Netherlands Gaming
Board with the information listed below:

Contact person: Messr. Ruud Koeman.
Koeman & Young Advocaten
E-mail: koeman.ruud@gmail.com

Remember to quote your winning information, that is your reference/batch
number and your personal information as stated below:

1. Names in full (Family Name First)
2. Contact Address
3. Nationality
4. Age
5. Phone/Fax
6. Occupation/Profession
7. Winning Email Address


NOTE: All winning must be claimed not later than 15 working days from this
notification.

Congratulations!!!

Yours Faithfully,
Ms.Marian Gelder.
Games/Lottery Coordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

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