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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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")
• 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.
  • phil_lenssen@excite.com
  • p_lenssen@myway.com

Fraud email example:

From: "aleen dehaan" <nederlndlotto@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:46:36 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY 'A' WINNER.

FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY 'A' WINNER.

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws
of Nederland International Lottery Programs under the auspices of Nederland
Gaming Board of Control. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000 Email addresses of individual and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet. No
tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your email address emerged as one of
two winners in the category 'A' with the following:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2005
Ticket Number: 54866235.

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of
€1,500,000.00(ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each from the
total payout.

Your Prize award has been insured with your email address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category 'A' winners
with the information below:

Mr. Philipp Lenssen
Financial Director,
Nationale Nederlanden Financiële Diensten BV
Entrada 603
ET Amsterdam
Email:phil_lenssen@excite.com
CC:p_lenssen@myway.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date
all 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 away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. This is important,as a case of
double claims will not be entertained.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Aleen De Haan
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Nederland International Lottery BV

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam