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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 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 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.
  • free_lotto_70@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ben foster" <freelotto2120@msn.com>
Reply-To: free_lotto_70@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:17:19 +0000
Subject: Congratulations !


Nationale Postcode Loterij
Van Eeghenstraat 70
1071 GK Amsterdam
www.postcodeloterij.nl




Lucky Winner;

REF NO: OLC/NL/505031
TICKET NUMBER 9901-0148-790-698
SERIAL NUMBER 6109-33

AWARD WINNING APPROVAL: FINAL NOTICE.



We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the selected winners of the
Nationale Postcode SWEEPTAKES LOTTERY Promos held on 7th of January 2006.
Your email address attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-698, with serial
number 6109-33 drew the lucky numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83; the lottery was
categorized into four zonal (Africa, America, Europe and Asia) stages.
Consequently you have won the lottery in the 2nd category. You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of[Eight Hundred Thousand]US
dollars Credited to file REF NO: MELI-T/17-F0442623 Batch No.
13/FFP/LDL/037.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and
North America. All participants in this Lottery Program have been selected
randomly through a computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 Companies
and 30,000,000 individual emails address from all search engines and web
sites. This promotional program will take place every year .However, winners
are only eligible for claims once.

Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your
money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is open
to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address and
who live in any of the aforementioned countries. This promotion is void in
all other countries and is also void where prohibited.

Principals and employees of the Lottery Promos and its respective Parents,
subsidiaries and their
immediate families are not eligible.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the processing
of claims application. It is even more imperative for overseas winners. To
begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a matter of urgency, to
contact the under listed licensed and accredited claims agent for the
processing of your prize awards winning.

Please contact the clearing house (through your claims agent only) the body
assigned with the verification of all emergent winner. Therefore all
protocols laid down by them must be followed to facilitate your claims;

CONTACT AGENCY:
MR. Bernard Page
Email:free_lotto_70@yahoo.co.uk

You to provide the claim agent with the under listed information as soon as
possible:

1. NAME IN FULL:................................

2. ADDRESS:.....................................

3. NATIONALITY:.................................

4. AGE:.........................................

5. OCCUPATION:..................................

6. PHONE/FAX:...................................

7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE.........

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to
disqualification and winnings Forfeiture. Winners are therefore advised to
expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards
winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details
very confidential, as any
discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of
the winners will be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by
the oath of secrecy taken on employment.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of
our Promotions program.

Sincerely,
Daina Van Dijk.
Co-coordinator.

NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
CORRESPONDENCE TO YOUR CLAIMS BEFORE THE 10TH OF Febuary 2006

AGENT.===========================================================
The Nationale Postcode SWEEPTAKES LOTTERY Promos Awards is proudly
sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell
computers, Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT
companies. The Nationale Postcode SWEEPTAKES LOTTERY internet draws in
each quarter of the year and is so organized to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to
say that up to Ten Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 Countries
worldwide.



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