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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.
• 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.
  • eurologspana@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Miguel Martinez <spanishlttry@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:13:12 +0100
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON





SPANISH NATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY
EMAIL LOG LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
AVENIDA DE LISBOA 45
28820 MADRID
SPAIN

Ref. No. SNEL 5423702/10/2007

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily annouce to you the draw number 034 of the spanish national email online lottery. An international sweepstakes email users worldwide progam held on the 16th of January 2007 in our Madrid office complex. Your email address was attached to:

Ticket number: 9647
Serial number: 498007/06
Lucky number: 43-18-26-89
Won amount: €516,778,00 (five hundred and sixteen thousand, seven hundred and
and seventy eight euro only)

This cash prize is credited to your file with ref. number SNEL:5423702/10/2007. This is from a total cash prize of €3,100,673,00 . A world wide web site email users
through a computer draw system from over one hundred thousand unions, associations, corporate and private individual email online users.This promotion takes
place periodically and been sponsored by advitising agents worldwide. Your lucky winning number falls within our European representative in Spain. In view of this, your €516,778,00 winning prize will be released to you or credited to your account any where you want the cash to be sent to as soon as you contact our payment office in
Madrid Spain.

You are advised to keep your winning information confidential untill your claim has been successfully processed and your money remitted to your account. This is our
measure of precaution to avoid double claiming and abuse of our promotion.
To file for your claim please kindly provide the following informations to our payment
agent.

1. Full name
2. Date of of birth
3. Nationality
4. Sex
5. Marital status
6. Occupation
7. Contact address
8. Phone number

You are to forward the above informations to our payment agent in Spain.

Contact person: Mr. Pedro Alonso
Iberia finance and security company
Email:eurologspana@yahoo.es
Phone: 00 34 66 903 7775

Onbehalf of Spanish National Email Log Lottery I wish to congratulate you on your winning and we wish you more luck.

Yours faithfully
Miguel Martinez
for management

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam