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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • info_lucky@fastermail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • pete.hry@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LUCKY LOTTERY" <luckylottery2@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:51:09 +0000
Subject: DEAR WINNER!!!!!!

LUCKY LOTTERY
E-mail :info_lucky@fastermail.com
Tromsodreef 72e, 3043 CK
Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to congratulate and inform you of the exclusive result
of the Lucky lottery program held on the 23rd of Septembe 2005, your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: 51E621K2-16 with serial
number:84702-162, drew lucky numbers: 5-64-12-3-7-88 which consequently won
in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sumpay-out
of 400,000.00 Euros(Four Hundred Thousand Euros).All participants were
selected by a computer ballot system drawn from over 45,000 company and
52,000,000 ind ividual email addresses and names worldwide. This promotional
lottery program is first of its kind. It was promoted and sponsored by
eminent personalities like the
Sultan of Brunei.

We hope that with part of your winning, you will participate in our
forthcoming 20 MILLION EURO GRAND SUPER.For security reasons, we advise
you to keep your Winning Information confidential until your claim has been
processed and your prize money remitted to you. This is a part of our
security protocol to curb double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
system by unscrupulous
individuals.

Please, you are requested to come personally to file in your
claim.However,if you cannot make it to Netherlands, please contact the below
approved attorney to help you make your claim.

Peter Hendry
E-mail :pete.hry@consultant.com
Aalsmeer, Netherlands.

Please remember that all winnings must be claimed not later than THREE
WEEKS FROM THE DATE OF THiS NOTIFICATION. All unclaimed prizes will be
null and void. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers
(Ref.:13G8/632E0714/005,Batch: 006389142-NL04) to the attorney.Furthermore,
should there be any change of e-mail address do inform us as soon as
possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you
for being part of our promotional lottery program.Note: Anybody under the
age of 18 is
automatically disqualified.

Best wishes,
Mr. Andre Schulten
Management

Anti-fraud resources:

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