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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 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.
  • claimdprt@iwon.com

Fraud email example:

From: "netherlandlotto notification" <netherlandlotto_notification@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:56:37 +0000
Subject: YOU WON

DE LOTTO
      
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
 
REF Number:  NER/231-ILGI0431/05
BATCH No:    EAPA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No:   20511465463-7644
SERIAL No:   472-9768-98
LUCKY No:    8-66-97-22-65-99
 
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
 
Sir, Madam
 
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 21st october 2005. Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 20511465463-7644 with Serial number 472-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99, which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars). This is from a total cash prize of USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Ten International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This lottery is apromotional program by DE LOTTO, (Biggest lottery Organization in the Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we intend to conduct several times a year.
Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated bank account with 24 hours of completion of the authentication.
Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and notarized and your certificate of award obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board.
Thisis part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants/non participants.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 4th November 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
    
To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent
 Mr. M. de Bruijne.
Email:claimdprt@iwon.com
 
NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete the claims process, this certificate can only be obtained through legal representation, so winners will be referred to an independent lawyer acting as a referee to assist in this process. Winners are to cover the legal charges for the notarization of the claims form and the acquisition of the certificate of award not De Lotto.
In order to avoid unnecessarydelays and complications, provide the following when replying:
Name:
Nationality:
Country of residence:
Tel number:
 
Delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other words, we shall divert your funds as stated above. Kindly remember to quote your reference number number in all correspondence.
Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of this mail and note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible should there be any complications in this transaction due to laxity on your part.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours truly,
Wendy Witkamp.
De Lotto.
      

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