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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")
  • "million dollars" (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)
  • ",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.
  • +447024098491 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • deman.claim@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:48:05 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CONGRATULATION-YOU WON DUTCH 2008 NATIONAL LOTTERY


 


WINNING NOTIFICATION


We are delighted to inform you of the result of the E-mail address computer ballot lottery draw of the dutch National lotto bv international program,which took place on November 2008.This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.


This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World  wide web(www)sites.Your e-mail address  attached to ticket   number:275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756- 05 drew the lucky  numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02.


This is from the total cash prize of 5,000,000 Million Dollars,shared amongst the first Ten (10)lucky winners in this category.All participant were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, Belgium,Nederland, Arab, United States, Asia, Europe ,Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.


This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of Multinational companies as part of their social  responsibility to the citizens in the  communities where they have operational base.Further more your details(e-mail address) falls  within our European representative office in United Kingdom,as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $500,000 will be released to you from our regional branch office in United Kingdom.We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.


PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:


Ref: 4758961725Batch:
ALLINC 70564943902 /188Winning no:
FGNGB2701/LPRC


HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact your claims agent, Rev. Deman at
 email:(deman.claim@hotmail.com) Fill this form below and send it to  him to file for your claim  .
Tel:+447024098491


LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF   PAYMENT.


FULL  NAME.................................................
DATE OF BIRTH..................................
SEX..................................
AGE..................................
MARITAL STATUS...................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION...........................................
TELEPHONE..........................................
FAX......................................................
EMAIL................
DATE......................................................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO........................
APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.


Please quote your reference,batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.For  security reasons, we advice all  winners to keep this   information confidential(VERY SECRET) from the  public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you.This is part of  our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements,equally to guard against non participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program. Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME(ON OR BEFORE 22nd November 2008); otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person as this program has been abused  in past,hence we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false
claims.
 
Note:You must claim your prize:not later than 7-days from the moment you receive this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank;


Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!


Yours in service,


Sincerely,



Mr. Williams Stanford
Online coordinator
for Dutch NATIONAL LOTTERY

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