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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",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.
  • +34651945543 (Spain, 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.
  • euromlsa_claimagent001@aliceadsl.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "E.M Office" <awrd.notice@yahoo.es>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:10:54 +0100
Subject: Award Result Notice 04/12/2008


EuroMillones Loteria S.A
Madrid, España.
--------04/12/2008---------


Attn: Winner,

WINNING PRIZE NOTIFICATION
Finally today, the result of winners of the EURO MILLONES LOTERIA E-mail program held on the 27th of November 2008 was announced. Your e-mail address attached to a TICKET Number with REFERENCE Number drew STAR No: 00-00-00-00-00 (coded for Security Reasons) which consequently won in the 2ND CATEGORY, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €975,000.00cents (Nine Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Euro).

!!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
The draw was carried out through random sampling (A QUATITATIVE TECHNIQUE) in our computerized email selection programme from a database of over 20,000,000 email addresses drawn from 53 Countries around the World.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 45,901 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search system from the internet. As such no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation, identification and privacy purposes.

Electronic Mail Loteria is approved and Licensed by the International Association of Lottery (IAL). Ensure to keep your winning information in confidence until your award is duly processed and claimed, this is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted advantage taking of the situation by other participants or impersonators in some cases.

To begin your claim, you will have to complete a release order form which will be enclosed in the confirmation email from the claim processing agent. Contact the claim agent immediately via email or telephone with the information below:

EuroMillones Loteria-Claim Processing Agent

Sr. Enviado Castano Cruz

Email Address: euromlsa_claimagent001@aliceadsl.fr

Telephone: +34 651 945 543

You are to send the information below to the CLAIM PROCESSING AGENT via email for the confirmation of your winning.

1. Your full names:
2. Your address:
3. Telephone/fax numbers:
4. Occupation/age:
5. Amount won:
6. Reference Number: Not Included For Security Reasons
7. Security File Number: Not Included For Security Reasons
8. Ticket Number: Not Included For Security Reasons
9. Reconfirm Email Address:
10. Date Notified:

Note that all prize money must be claimed within two weeks. Failure to do so your winning amount will be returned to the Ministerio De Economia Y Hacienda as Un-claimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your Security File Number in all correspondence with the Claim Officer.

Yours Sincerely,
Helena Fernado
Loteria Coordinator

Note:
- All claims are nullified after 14 working days from today.
- Do inform the claims officer of any change of Names, Address and E-mail.
- All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.

********DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR WINNING INFORMATION TO ANYONE TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM*********

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