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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:

• 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.
  • +31621987260 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "powerball bv powerball" <helen_ince@pwball.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:05:02 +0000
Subject: NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE

POWERBALL LOTTO. BV
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game

Date:6th-OCTOBER-2005
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

Europe / America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors,
POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the
final draw result of 1st SEPTEMBER-2005 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which
was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The
Netherlands. Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to
give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM.

By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for
academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater,
art, literature, projects is the social and political arena with a focus on
health, as well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to
congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number
that was selected among the 45 lucky consultation prizewinners. Your email
ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games
Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email
addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the
50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international
email provider companies. You have won a consultation cash prize of US $
500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation
cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment
Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete
assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims
of your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU Information
Officer Mr: Cally Martins whom has been assigned to assist you.

Contact NAME: Cally Martins

E-mail:(k.martins@mcrmail.com)

TEL: +31-621-987-260
FAX: +31-847-300-537

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation prize
winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
Email-games.
Regards,
Helen Ince (Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and
regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky
consolations prize Winners. This notification also contains information that
is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from
disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached
to the lucky numbers along with the winning information’s you are not
authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any
part of it.

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