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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:
  • "into your nominated bank account" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • lottonll@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: "lottonlx promo" <lottonlpromo2@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:46:02 +0000
Subject: ************DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE***********

LOTTO.NL
PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF Number: MOM/231-ILGI0431/06
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99


AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION.(YOU HAVE WON!)

Dear Lucky Winner,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
Free Email Computer
Ballot Jackpot 'A' draw 1st Category of LOTTO.NL.We are pleased to
inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs
held on the 22nd January 2006. 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 a promotional program by LOTTO.NL,
(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 within 48
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.
This is 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 25th February 2006. 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.
Reply Email:lottonll@netscape.net,or lottonll@walla.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
Lotto.nl.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays 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,
Mrs Wendy Witkamp.
Lotto.nl


NOTICE: You have received this message from Lotto.nl prize dept. at
your winning e-mail address
because you have emerged a winner.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.

************DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE***********

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