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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:
  • ",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)
  • "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)
• 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.
  • +31617888229 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "www.postcodeloterij.nl" <postcodeloterij@seemessage.net>
Reply-To: snsbnkliste@luckymail.com
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:39:18 +0000
Subject: Check message details




POSTCODE LOTERIJ-NL
Van Eeghenstraat 70, 1021GK
Den-Haag,The Netherlands
www.postcodeloterij.nl

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws Euro Online Promotions held in Rotterdam,The Netherlands on the 1st of March; 2008.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies selected by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

No tickets were sold.The selected e-mail addresses were attached to tickets numbers which were spinned by our ballot machine.After this automated computer ballot,your e-mail address attached to ticket number 3157437418 emerged as one of the ten winners in the category "B" with the following winning informations:

REFERENCE N0 :NL3815842853MG,
BATCH N0: PC-040/826153746

You have been approved for a payment of 1,000,000.00( One Million Euro ) Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Your prize has also been insured with the winning e-mail address.

CONTACT BELOW MENTIONED OFFICE CONTACT E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR CLAIMS,WITH YOUR NAME,TELEPHONE/FAX AND YOUR WINNING NUMBERS.

Contact Person: Dr.Vork Jesper ( Director, Claim Dept )
Contact Tel :+31 617 888 229
Contact E-mail: snsbnkliste@luckymail.com

Congratulation once again.

Yours faithfully,
Carolina Tessen
Games/Loterij Coordinator.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam