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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.
  • +31611428326 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • dpafinanagencynl@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "tomwaarden04@go.com" <tomwaarden04@go.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:29:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON.


CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON.DESK OF THE PRESIDENT,ZONAL CO-ORDINATOREMAIL LOTTERY PROMOTIONLUCKYDAY INTERNATIONAL NLPRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENTGOUDA, NEDERLANDS.
REFERENCE-NUMBERS: 53198/2005nl/DpaBATCH-NUMBERS: 785/LDNL/001WINNING SECURITY-CODE: NL22510/DPA-WSD
SUBJECT: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON.

Dear Winner,We are delighted to inform you of the result of Email Lottery Promotion held on the 22ND OCTOBER, 2005 and that you were one of the FOUR LUCKY WINNERS and your e-mail address attached to:
SERIAL-NUMBERS: 758-2614LUCKY-NUMBERS: 1-3-5-10-9-6
which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of $500,000(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Please be informed that all participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 75,000 company and 350,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.Please to file in for your claims,contact our Claim's Agent:

MR WELLINGTON VAN BLINKMANForeign Remittance operation manager,DPA- AGENCY(financialpeople)Reply-Email: dpafinanagencynl@netscape.net Telephone: +31 611 428 326

Please do remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 4TH NOVEMBER,2005.After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,if you wish to file in for your claims,you are therefore requested to qoute the following claims requirements to the above reply email address:
1. Reference ,winning Security Code and Lucky-Numbers.2. Your Full Names and Address3. Telephone and Fax Numbers.
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 yours,MR TOM WAARDEN

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