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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.
  • +31643601615 (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.
  • eulottopro@aol.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: hans catherine <hanscatherine@web.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:08:07 +0100
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTICE





AWARD WINNING NOTICE
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR
67, Bijlmerdreef 4860MV Eindhoven-The Netherlands.

Batch No:14/4017/AMP
Ref No: EUL/2551256003/11
Ticket No: 661099
Lucky No: 7785.

Attn: Winner,

FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the National Lottery programs held on the month of February, 2008 your e-mail address were attached to one of the ten winning ticket numbers 661099 with game Number 8286529...You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €550,000.00 (Five hundred and fifty thousand Euros)

CONGRATULATIONS!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system from our sponsors databases, including over 50,000 companies and 150,000 individual E-mail addresses and names submitted by our agents drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, North And South America, Oceania and around the world. To file for your urgent claim, please contact our approved agent for your region.

MR. STEVE LUKAS
CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER
NATIONAL LOTTERY AGENCY
Tel: +31 643 601 615
Email: eulottopro@aol.com [mailto:eulottopro@aol.com]

It is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and to minimize identification difficulties to advise you to keep this information confidential until your claim is processed successfully and to avoid unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants,

please note all winnings must be claimed not later than 27th February,2008. After this date all unclaimed winnings will be null and void.

In Order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agents as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Yours faithfully

MRS. MARY VAN ANDERSON.
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR



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