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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:

• 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 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.
  • +31649218888 (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.
  • claimsdirector@fastermail.com
  • claimsdirector@fastermail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM: DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS. " <d.software@virgilio.it>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:25:04 -0200
Subject: FROM: DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS.

FROM: DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTERS.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
RE:AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of DE SAP SOFT WARE
PROMOTION Netherlands International programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail 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 e-mail address emerged as one of
two winners in the category "A" with the following:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Batch Number:26371545-LNI/2004
Ticket Number:54866235

You as well as the other winner are therefore to
receive a cash prize of 1,500.000.(ONE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY) each from the total
payout. Your prize awards has been insured with your
e-mail 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
informatiom below:

Mr. Van Der Velder
Financial Director, DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands Company,De Amsterdamse
Poort Bijlmerplein
888 1102 MG Amsterdam
1000 BV Amsterdam
E-mail:claimsdirector@fastermail.com
Tel:+31-649-218-888
Fax:+31-847-520-740
IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all
claims process,failing which would lead to
disqualification and winnings Forfeiture.
Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims
process.
(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute
entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and
acceptance of our terms and conditions of claims to
avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your
prize awards winning.
(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep
your winning details very confidential, as any
discrepancies resulting from a breach of this
confidentiality on the part of the winners will be
covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound
by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.
(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you
acknowledge your acceptance to be added to our lottery
master player database.
(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive
periodic mailings which will include, but are not
limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play,
Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would be of
interest to our master players, from all the
sponsoring entities.
(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve
the discretion to be removed from any such mailing
list which automatically disqualifies you from
this and subsequent lottery entries. Removal
instructions are on every mails.
(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the
privacy of our master players/lucky winners database
and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or
the illegal use of information about our
Players/winners.

Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence.

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the
affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Sara Borsch
DE SAP SOFT WARE PROMOTION
Netherlands International programs
all response should be mail to
claimsdirector@fastermail.com

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