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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.
  • +31642877000 (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.
  • fileclaimstaatnl@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Linda Brugmann" <notify-linda6@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:28:25 +0100
Subject: CONTACT US FOR YOUR WON PRIZE

CONTACT US FOR YOUR WON PRIZE
Staatloterij Netherlands/Microsoft Promotions
International Lottery Award Programme
Echtenstein 100B,
1103 AA, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Ref: NTD62/968/07
Batch: 409978EA

WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky winner,

The prestigious Staatloterij and Microsoft has set out and successfully
organised a Sweepstakes marking the beginning of the year anniversary. We
rolled out over 10,000.000.00 (Ten Million Euros) for our beginning of the
year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected
and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which Microsoft enjoy their
patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised
email addresses to ticket numbers. Microsoft is now the largest Internet
company and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the
most widely used program, Microsoft is running an e-mail beta test.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
8295727495 with serial numbers SMN/9080999 and drew the lucky numbers
14-11-25-40-40-47(21) which subsequently won you 500,000.00 (Five Hundred
Thousand Euros) as one of the jackpot winners in this draw. You have
therefore won the entire winning sum of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand
Euro). The draws registered as Draw number two (2) was conducted in the
Hague, Netherlands on the 3rd of March 2007. These Draws are commemorative
and as such special.

To file for your claims, you are to make contact with the Staatloterij Claim
Processing Department which shall by duty guide you through the process to
facilitate the release of your prize money. Please find below for your
perusal.

Staatloterij Lottery Netherlands
Claim Processing Dept.
TEL:+31-642 877 000
Fax: +31-847 216 835
Email: fileclaimstaatnl@aim.com
Contact Personnel: Mr.Phillip Hall

Thank you for being part of our promotional award program and commemorative
Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Linda Brugmann
Head of Customercare Service
Staatloterij/Microsoft Promotion Team

NB: Any claim not made before fourteen (14) working days from date
of notification indicates that the winner has voluntarily forfeited his/her
winnings.

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