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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 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.
  • +31641443262 (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.
  • dsbclaimagent@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Online Notification <"Notification Department"@ns39253.ovh.net>
Reply-To: dsbclaimagent@aim.com
Date: 2 Feb 2008 17:18:03 -0000
Subject: Urgent Notice (Notification Department)

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit




Comfirmation Department

Hoofdkantoor DSB N.V.

Postbus 79

1787 ZH WOGNUM

the Nederland



We happily announce to you the draw of the DSB new year email Lottery

International programs held on the 26th of January 2008. Your email address attached to Serial number:81-88d-910b which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.As a result of this, you are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 350,000.00 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO) in cash credited to security file number 589-91.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence to our claim Department,



REFERENCE NUMBER: Bs/940/815/

BATCH NUMBER: 81/014/9,



Provide our/your accredited claims agent with the information as stated below:

1. Name:

2. Address:

3. Age:

4. Sex:

5. Marital Status:

6. Occupation:

7. Country of Residence:

8. Nationality:

9. Telephone Number:

10. Fax Number:

11.Reference number

12.Batch number





Contact our claim department immediately with the formation below for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.



Mr Dirk Benjamin

Tel:0031-641-443-262

Fax:0031-847-474000

Email:dsbclaimagent@aim.com



Note:Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified, congratulation once more from our members and staff being part of our promotional program.



Best Regard

Stephanie Espen

(online co-ordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam