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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.
  • +665050626 (Thailand, probably a 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.
  • claim665@netscape.net
  • claim665@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: gomez brooklyn <josk400@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: josk400@yahoo.es
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:09:59 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION


THE FREELOTTO COMPANY
MADRID HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30, TORESS VICTORIA
28095
MADRID
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the 29th of september. All 10 winning addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your
email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this
year's Annual FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
€500,000 euros (five hundred thousand euros) only. The following
particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622ES
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/738887152/ES

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email
(claim665@netscape.net) or fax 34-686251421 as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings:

prof.Daniel Brook
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
FAX: 34-686251421
TEL: +665-050-626
claim665@netscape.net

N.B: Steps to claim your prize

1. Winners must immediately pay a non-deductible amount of £ 595.00
pounds only as fee before claiming their prize for the processing and
handling of award. Note that your prize have been insured to the real
value of 500 000.00 euros hence no deduction can be done.

2. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer.

3. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where
they want their prize paid or sent.

4. Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and
means of identification (international passport or drivers’ license) to
claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are
claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Josin Brooklyn
Promotions Manager
The FreeLotto Company

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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by a conglomerate of
international IT companies. The freelotto Internet draw is held once in a
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and
computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won
annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and
take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions
are won on a daily basis on one of the world’s most famous free lotto
service.

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