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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "lottery winners international e-mail programs"
• 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.
  • +34606832403 (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.
  • millioninter@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS
Reply-To: cristalinfo2006@netscape.net
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:02:51 +0100
Subject: FINAL NOTIFICATION IN EUROMILLIONSLOTTERY EMAIL PROGRAMME AWARD.


EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE
REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782
DATE:22/2/2006
Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result in Euro
Millions Lottery Winners International E-mail programs
held on Thursday 9th of March 2006. Your E-mail
address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with
serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star
numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently won in the
2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum pay out of 1.000.000.00 Euro.(OneMillion
Euro)CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential until
your claims has been processed and your money remitted
to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants. All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 company
and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names
from all over the world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates,
President of Microsoft, the world's largest software
company inorder to enhance and promote the use of
Internet Explorer Users and microsoft-wares around the
globe.
This promotional program takes place every three year.
We hope with part of your winning you will take part
in our end of year 50 million Euro International
lottery.
Meanwhile,to clarify your doubts on how come you were
selected and frequently questions that you may likely
ask(HOW DID I ENTER THIS CONTEST???HOW DID YOU GET MY
EMAIL ADDRESS???HOW DID I WIN???).
Please note that all email address/names registered
with different and various websites/pages in the
internet were selected through a computerized ballot
machine system from the internet,randomly drawn from
over 100,000.00 COMPANIES and
50,000,000.00(INDIVIDUALS PRIVATE/PERSONAL)
To file for your claim, please contact our fiducial
Agent: DR.PETER JAMES
CRISTAL SECURITY COMPANY
Email:millioninter@netscape.net
TEL:0034-606-832-403
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than
March 31 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds
will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff
and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
MRS,COMFORT JOSE
Lottery Coordinator
http://www.loteria.com/euro.php

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