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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • ",500,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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)
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +31619289696 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "MARKT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMME"
<edwardlestra001@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:29:12 GMT
Subject: $2,500,000.00, Lucky Winner!!!


MARKT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMME.............

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY =22A=22 WINNER ONLY

Attn Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged a winner in the final
annual draw of our Lottery International Programs. Your email address was
selected by our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from an
exclusive list of 250,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate
bodies generated from an internet resource database.No tickets were
sold.

Your email address is identified with Batch Number: 444821545-NL/2007 and
Ticket Number: PP 3812 /2007-07 in Category =22A=22 and your claims =
portfolio
is filed with Ref Number:MARKT 80 ES 9414.You are therefore to receive a
cash prize of =242,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) from the total payout.

CONGRATULATIONS=21=21=21.

Your prize award has been insured under a bonded depository policy with
your e-mail address, and will be transferred to you upon meeting the
claims requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.
To file for the processing of your prize sum payment, you are advised to=20
contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category =22A=22 =
winners
with the information below:
*************************************
Name:Mr.Edward Lestra
Tel:+31 619 289 696
Email:edwardlestra001=40yahoo.com.hk
*************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following
information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information confidential,especially your
reference and ticket numbers.This is important as a case of double claims =
will not be entertained.

Members of staff of affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program. 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 Faithfully,
Martin Prak
Lottery Coordinator.
PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. Personal and winning data provided by winners to
THIS PROMO remains known ONLY to the winner and
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS ORGANISATION.
2a. All e-mail addresses, contact information,
photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT
be published or disclosed on ANY public or in any
other public place or via any medium accessible to the
public.
2b. All e-mail addresses, contact information,
photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT
be disclosed to or made available to any third party
or agent outside the claims office.
3. All e-mail addresses, contact information and/or
personal data of winners are kept in an isolated
database server protected from any external access
using SSL locking on 6th level binary pharse. This
data is made accessible ONLY to MARKT INTERNATIONAL
CYBER LOTTERY staff and authorized agents directly
involved with the processing of winners claims.
4. Winners are advised to keep their winning
information away from public knowledge, in order to
avoid any double claims, impersonation or
misrepresentation during the claims process.MARKT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS will not be liable
for any misplaced claims as a owing to your negligence
or publishing of your winning information.

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