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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • +31617012616 (Netherlands, 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.
  • bemaxclaims@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: RACHEL VAN EDGAR <staatslott06@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 06:59:18 +0100
Subject: YOU HAVE WON A MICRO-SOFT INTERNET FREE PROMOTIONS


FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED STAATS LOTERIJ PROMOTERS.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "B" WINNERS
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
STAATS LOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL NETHERLANDS
LAAN VAN HOORNWIJCK 503 3589HF
RIJSWIJK , THE NETHERLANDS.

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: PREMIER WEB BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final
draws of Staats Loterij
Netherlands International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was
conducted from an
exclusive list of 45,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the Internet.
No tickets were sold as a result of bonuses gathered from ticket winners to be
offered to the entire public
freely. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one
of five winners in the
category "B" with the following numbers:

Ref Number: 28404/822-6601/LNI
Serial Number:00372905-LNI/0255
Ticket Number:B078662300

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
EUR600.000.00.( FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each.This is from a total pay out of
EUR3.000.000.00(THREE MILLION EURO ONLY).
Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting
our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your Prize winnings, you are advised to
contact our assigned claims
agent for category "B" winners with your ref, serial and ticket numbers with the
information below:

Mr Andrew Wright (claims manager)
Jan Van Herlenstraat 230, 1103bg
Den Haag, The Netherlands
Fax:0031-847-572-622
Phone: 0031-617-012-616
E-mail:bemaxclaims@netscape.net

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed before 25th of March 2006. After this date
all unclaimed funds
would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to
keep all lotto
information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket
numbers. (This is important
in order to avoid double claims as Staats Loterij International Netherlands or
it's agent will not be
responsible for a second claim due to misappropriation of claims procedures in
any form).
Anybody under the age of 18 and members of Staats Loterij International
Netherlands and affiliate
agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Should there be any change of address do not hesitate to notify our claims agent
immediately.

Thank you and congratulations on behalf of the staffs and members of this
lottery promotion program!!!
Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Rachel Van Edgar (vise president)
Staats Lotterij International Netherlands

NB:Do not reply to this email, send all enquiries and your claims procedures to
our assigned claims agent
with the details below:

Mr Andrew Wright (claims manager)
Jan Van Herlenstraat 230, 1103bg
Den Haag, The Netherlands
Fax:0031-847-572-622
Phone:0031-617-012-616
E-mail: bemaxclaims@netscape.net

Anti-fraud resources:

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