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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 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.
  • +31616557921 (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.
  • agmclaimoffice@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: vivi@vivirosh2.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:14:59 +0100 (CET)
Subject: DE NEDERLANDSE STAATSLOTERIJ


DE NEDERLANDSE STAATSLOTERIJ
Paleisstraat 5 ,2514 JA
DEN HAAG
THE NETHERLANDS

NEW YEAR LOTTERY DRAW 2007


ATTN: WINNER
1.BATCH: 007/48SL/847/970
2.The file Ref number: BSO61/94756/001
3.Winning Number: 003/67590/SL048

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail,we wish to notify you that your
winning processing/verification has been directed to this office,congratulations.

Your email address have won Five Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand One Hundred and
Eighty Three Euros (572, 183.00).

Firstly you received the notification of winning due to a computer balloting
sample carried out on research of internet users and a promotion ushering in a
new package of software.

This is a give away promotion whereby e-mail users worldwide gets an equal
opportunity of winning because email samples from all users worldwide are
carried out and a computing system selects at random,email addresses,and each
email address has been tagged with specific numbers and yours was picked and
hence you were contacted to process and claim your won fund.

This is not like the everyday lottery you buy a ticket,its a give away promotion
done once every year.

The said sum is now deposited in our suspense account in your favour waiting for
the immediate remittance to you by the payment bank,be informed that your
winning prize has a hard cover insurance bond that makes it difficult to deduct
a cent until the sum is finally credited to your designated account.

In view of the above you are advised to contact this office for further
instruction and subsequent release of your fund as due to mix up we do not want
to pay money into wrong accounts.

Please you have to fill the attached Payment processing form for verification
and processing of your winning and send it back to this office by email
attachment or by fax.

Also you will be required to call me as the claims officer Mr Van Florian as i am in
charge of the processing of your winning and i will guide you on what you have
to do to receive this winning.
Please contact the underlisted claims officer via this E-mail below as soon as possible for the immediate
release of your winnings: MR WIM MOLLY(CLAIMS OFFICER)DE NEDERLANDSE STAATSLOTERIJ
TEL: ++31-616-557-921
Email:agmclaimoffice@yahoo.co.uk

The Claims form will be attached to this email.

Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Yours Faithfully
Mrs Vivi Rosh(Lottery Co-ordinator)

N.B:YOU ARE ADVISED TO KEEP YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL PENDING WHEN YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT DUE TO DOUBLE CLAIMS AS WE WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR MAKING PAYMENTS TO WRONG ACCOUNT


STAATSLOTERIJ WINNER CLAIM VERIFICATION FORM

WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA

First Name.: *

Middle Name.:
Last Name.: *

Gender.: MaleFemale

Month Of Birth.: MonthJanuaryFebuaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberDay: Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031Year:

Marital Status.: SingleMarriedDivorced
Nationality.: *
Religion.:
Occupation.:


Address 1.: *
Address 2.:
City.: *
State/Province.: *
Zip Code.: *

Mobile phone No.: *
House Phone No.: *
Fax No.:
Email Address.: * eg. username@domainname.com

WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number.: *
Amount Won: *
Reference Number.: *


This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: No:

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