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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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.
  • +31629338244 (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.
  • j_adams@cieux.zzn.com
  • euroadams@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: <estellarogers2006@walla.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:39:06 +0500
Subject: CONGRATULATION


Dear Recipient,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First
Category draws of
TRIPPLE WINS INTERNATIONAL GAMES. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a
winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws.
The draws were held prior to
your notification .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names/email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,America, Asia,
Australia,Europe, Middle East, and
Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company E-mail id, attached to Ref number MLI/231-ILG10431/03
,Batch Number
EAPA/15/096/PTNL, Tiicket Number 20511465897, with Serial Number 472-971103
,Drew the
lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-71-64 and consequently won in the First Category
A+.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $US2.5m(Two
Million,Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars) each, which is the winning payout for
Category" A" winners. This is
from the total prize money of USD$15,000,000 shared among the 6 Winners in
this category.


This funding was made possible by microsoft international to support the
use of mircosoft software
and improve Globalization in conjunction with European's Lotteríes.
Visit our sites for more about our weekly lottery program;

www.lotto.nl
http://www.interlotto.com/euro/


CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents Cash Change Securities
Europe ,and insured in
your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public
notice until the process of
Beneficiary Certificate Ownership Winning Notification, Stamp duties and
re-activation of Account of
your prize /money remitted in readiness of the subsequently onward transfer
into your nominated Bank
Account. This is in conformity with the latest transfer regulation signed
by the Organization /
Netherlands Government since this is part of our Security protocol measures
to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants .


We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes draw
where you stand a chance of winning up to USD$25 Million; we hope that with
a part of your prize you will participate in it.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your fiducial agent Mr JOHNSON
ADAMS of the EURO
ACCREDITED PAYMENT AGENT immediately for due processing and remittance of
your prize
money to a designated account of your choice:

TEL: +31-629-338-244
FAX: +31-641-593-184
Email: j_adams@Cieux.zzn.com , j_adams@walla.com ,
euroadams@netscape.net
j_adams@HOSHMAIL.COM

You are advised to contact our agents by E-mail and/or fax within a week of
receiving this notice.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: That all winning must be claimed not later than 28th of MARCH 2006.
After this date all
unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.Anybody under the age
of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

Finally, we ensure that you note every letters as clearly stated as we
would not be held responsible
should there be hitch in this transaction due laxity on your part.So you
are to expedite action ,Failure
to do this we shall be compelled to lose your fund in other words,we shall
divert your fund to
somewhere else.In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications;Kindly 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.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. Estella Rogers
Lottery Coordinator

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