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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.
  • emldepartment00@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ALLAN NESTER <lars_jerry17@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:35:30 +0000
Subject: EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENT:RESULTS OF THE EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY March 22nd
2007



Euro Million Lottery
Postbus 3074 Laan van Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk
Netherlands
(Customer Services)

Attention: Dear Prize Winner,

This is your official winning notification issued by the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY, organisers of the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY and EUROMILLIONS Plus lottery.This message confirms that you have received from EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY OFFICE a notification of your lottery prize winning in the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY draws of March 21th 2007 DRAWS held at the The Netherlands Lottery Office.Lottery Winning No.: 09, 11, 20, 38, 43 Lottery Draw Date: March 22nd 2007Winning Ticket Number: 2 16 35 34Winning Group: 2ND Prize Winners Draw number 150AMOUNT WON/PRIZE: ¤ 887,536.10 - PAY-OUT IN EURO ONLY.Your entry ticket number drew as one of the lucky winning ticket number for the EUROMILLONS LOTTERY 2ND PRIZE DRAWS in which three lucky winners emerged.You have won a lottery prize amount of E 887,536.10 THOUSAND EURO.ABOUT EUROMILLIONS:===================The EUROMILLONS LOTTERY is world promotional lottery program organised by the joint European states comprising of the United Kingdom, France,Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and 8 other european nations as its partner.This promotion is entry free which NO TICKETS ARE PURCHASED!Winners are randomly selected systematically online by City code and email entry only,selections of winners are generated by an Electronic Random Selection System(ERSS)used by EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY.From a total of 1440 thousand email addresses and 200 world cities codes entered for EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY 2ND PRIZE GROUP, Your email entered for draw No.114 and was luckily selected among 3 lucky winners in your group.1ST TICKET NO# 2 6 16 26 35 492ND TICKET NO# 2 16 35 343RD TICKET NO# 6 16 26LOTTERY PRIVACY:================All e-mails are submitted by our partner international email service providers/marketing companies and public services providers.EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY holds the right to annual or cancel prize payment to winners upon request by winners.Secrecy is utmost observed by the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY for winners privacy. All prize payment will be paid out securely to winners.CLAIMING YOUR LOTTERY PRIZE:============================ authorised as the official lottery prize winner to make claims for your winning prize within 30 days of receiving this notice. You are required to confirm receipt of this Winning Notification.For your processing of your lottery winning claims,please contact the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER (CPO) contact information below.EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY OFFICE.AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.Mr.Paul Vanfrant (CPO)EMAIL:emldepartment00@yahoo.com
TEL: +31848392712================================================================================================EUROMILLIONS WINNING CLAIMS FORM (NON-RESIDENT)================================================================================================FULL NAME:....................................................................FORWARDING ADDRESSE:..........................................................CITY/STATE:....................... COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:.........................MARITAL STATUS:..................... NATIONALITY.............. SEX.......INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT NR:.................. DATE OF BIRTH:.................TEL/FAX NR: ......................... OCCUPATION:..........................CURRENT EMAIL:............................================================================================================================WINNING INFORMATION================================================================================================COUPON NR:..................................LOTTERY WINNING NRS:..................LOTTERY DATE:..................CLAIMANT SIGNATURE:...........................================================================================================================Please you are to choose your payment option at which you want your fund Paid to you; listed below is our payment modalities and option of payment.(1) COURIER DELIVERY OF WINNING CHECK:..............................(.........)(2) BANK PAYMENT (Online Account required):............................(.........)============================================================================================================================
Thank you and congratulation!!!YOUR'S SINCERELY
Mr. Allan Nester,Director General,EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY AwardDisbursement Center.The Netherlands.

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