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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +31627032938 (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.
  • winneremail2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ukey kamp" <ukeykamp15@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:51:56 +0000
Subject: CONTACT PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION . YOU HAVE WON € 500,000 euro only.

COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY PROGRAM
LUCKY NO:000/589.
REF NO.3698
sera NO.000/005
BATCH NO.003/LS,
TICKET NO.4479


Dear Sir/Madam

We are please to inform you that you have won a lottery programme from .This
is an official notification of your lottery winning in the COCA COLA DIGITAL
NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game
(C.C.D.N.I.L.P)played on 5th Feb, 2006 at the complex hall Den-Haag Holland.

You have won a prize from (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)of €500,000,00 Five Hundred
Thousand euro only, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the
(C.C.D.N.I.L.P) in accordance with the Europe Millione lottery ordinance,
you are authorized as the lottery prize winner to request claims of your
winning prize.



After randomly selecting 8000,000 participants from an initial database of
emails addresses, all participants were selected through a computer ballot
system from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, U.S.A and South
America as part our International Promotions Program to all our costomers,
which was conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes
Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective
continents from across the globe to all Internet user, we produced an
extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the
Grand Draw prize.

This promotional program takes place every four years. Total of 8000,000
emails different addresses are entered for the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game
(C.C.D.N.I.L.P.) All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by
our partner international email service providers/ marketing companies and
public services providers.

Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random
Selection System (ERSS). Your email ID was included among the 8000,000 email
addresses, and yours was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.

Note ********Note*********************Note**********************

That the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM will remit
prize payout to only winners who email address officially won, and will be
aloud for their prize claims.

You are required to file your claim,please contact the appointted Lottery
Group KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND fiducial agent Mr.Joel Howard, this
office will process your claim file and send your file to the pay bank for
the remittance of your prize payout of € 500,000 euro only.

NOTE!!!!!!!
All winners most claim his/her prize not later then one week of this
notification. And you advise to contact the processing agent by sending
your relpy email to the below lottery office email address;


KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND.
PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION
Office Address:Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk Noord.
Fiducial agent Mr.Joel Howard
Processing Officer.
Tel; 0031-627032938.
Fax; 0031-84721 5368.
EMAIL: winneremail2006@netscape.net



THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT COCA COLA
DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM, ON BEHALF OF (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)
GAMES 2006. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.

SINCERELY,
MRS. UKEY .W. KAMP
CO-ORDINATOR. (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)


N.B. ; TO PROCESS YOUR CLIAM PRIZE,SEND YOUR REPLY EMAIL TO ;
winneremail2006@netscape.net

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