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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.
  • bejesbejesnl@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • bejesbejesnl@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Lotto Draw Game <lottogamdraw@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:19:24 +0200
Subject: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION

EU HEAD OFFICE
FOXSTRAAT 100B
3053 MS , HOLLAND.
LOTTO BV NL 2005 GAME
FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the draw held on the 17th October,
2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.
Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 Us Dollars (one million
Dollars) only. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your
reference number and batch numbers:

1,Ticket20658766483,
2,Batch827901527-NL,
3,Lotto code G17854GLN,
4,Lucky 549084412

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing
Officer with your winning information provided above.

Dr Patrick Coxs
Tel: +31 -617 870 219
Fax:+31-847-545-681
Email: bejesbejesnl@netscape.net

For processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account contact Dr Patrick Coxs
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later 25th October, 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds
will be returned to the lotto company, Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Dr Patrick Coxs
Tel: +31 -617 870 219
Fax: +31-84-724-4588
Email: bejesbejesnl@netscape.net

Furthermore, if there should 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.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Sincerely,
Maria J. Chambers
Promotions Manager
Lotto Company
Holland & Europe.
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NOTICE: You have received this message from De Lotto international prize dept. at your e-mail address
because you have visited on of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to
receive mails from their sponsors.If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to
the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly,
use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this
message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately
by reply e-mail. Thank you.

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