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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 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.
  • fedincoy@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: DASCUELA LOTTO INTERNATIONAL <fedincoy@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:31:43 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Annual_award=A1=A1=A1?=


DASCUELA LOTTO INTERNATIONAL
SPANISH HEAD OFFICE ,
MADRID, SPAIN.
4TH
FEB 2006


Dear
Winner,

RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION .
We are pleased to
announce you as third category winner of this years
annual DASCUELA
Award.
All winning addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of
50,000,000
international emails. Consequently,you
have therefore
been
approved for
a total pay out of 250,000.00euros
(Twohundred and
fifty
thousand
euros)only.
The following particulars
were attached
to your
lotto payment order

(i)Lucky numbers:
7-87-
67-19-14-11
(ii) Ticket
number:
624381734-1112
(iii) Batch
Number:
JVHN/21/294/VHIT
(iv)
Lottery Ref Number:
TSR1242-
BGR1034/06
and
(v) Serial Number: ES-
398-4132-16

Your security
file
number is ES-
423215341P. Please contact
the
underlisted claims
officer as soon as
possible for the immediate
release of your
winnings:
Name:Mr.John
Carlos
Fedda Insurance Company
Email:
fedincoy@netscape.net
TEL: +34-
651-335-021.
After the
acknowlegement
of the receipt of this winning
notification
you would
be sent a
lottery claims/Apraisal form to
fill and submit to
our
lawyer who
will carry out the legalisation of
the transfer of your
winning.Do not
forget to quote your reference
number in all
correspondence. Your security file number is
ES9980973465SD. Please
contact the
underlisted claims officer as
soon as possible for
the
immediate release of your
winnings:
Please, note that you

Once
again on behalf of all our staffs we are
wishing
you a big
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours sincerely,
Rita Moore
For
Claims
Officer
The Lotto Company,Spain..

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