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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:
  • "fiduciary 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.
  • +22997727255 (Benin, probably a 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.
  • agentneitzsch_nklottery@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <ritamuller@centrum.cz>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:13:09 +0200
Subject: NKL GERMANY.




GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY NKL 6/49

P.O.BOX 5127

Mexikoring 29,

D-22297 Hamburg,

GERMANY

(CUSTOMER SERVICES)

WWW.NKL.DE

Ref : GNL/NKL/OSA/3764890X2/23

Batch: 074/06/83734369
 
FIRST AND FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION



  We happily announce to you the Draw #1089 of the GERMAN NKL 6/49 NATIONAL LOTTERY program held on Monday, september 1st, 2008.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew our Winning numbers: 04, 16, 32, 34, 35, 37 Bonus Ball [01] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.


  You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of (€950,000.00) (Nine Hundred and Fifty thousand EURO) in cash credited to your file. This is from a total cash prize of 4,750,000.00 Million EURO shared amongst the first To Fifth (1-5) with different amount won in this category i.e. Match 3 plus bonus.



  All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.Your lucky winning numbers falls within our Overseas Booklet Representative office in West Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this your (€950,000.00)(Nine Hundred and fifty thousand EURO) will be released to you by our Africa Payment Office in Benin Republic as soon as you contact your agent for validation purposes. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.



To file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.

************************************************************ *******

DR.Gerhard Neitzsch,

OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENT

Phone: +229-97727255
Email: agentneitzsch_nklottery@yahoo.de
************************************************************ ********

  For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner will result in automatic disqualification.

Endeavor to contact your agent as instructed providing him the following information for validation purposes:



First Name:

Last Name:

Winning Email:

Phone Number:

Address:

Zip / Postal code:

AMOUNT WON:

OCCUPATION:

TICKET NUMBER:

SERIAL NUMBER:

DRAW NUMBER:

MARITAL STATUS:

SEX:

AGE:



Yours Faithfully,

Mrs.Rita Muller.
Online coordinator for

THE GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY 6/49 Sweepstakes International Program.



NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MESSAGE. MAILS SENT TO THIS MAIL BOX ARE NOT MONITORED AND CANNOT BE REPLIED. PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO YOUR AGENT AS INSTRUCTED.

Congratulations from me and members and staff of The GERMAN NATIONAL LOTTERY NKL.

 

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