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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 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 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.
  • +31649238846 (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.
  • imperialnv@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: De Lotto Nederlands <lotto@delotto.nl>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:05:26 +0100
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION


International Prize Award Department
Reference Number: AEAE/179812/1724
Batch Number: IOA /11-0124
Ticket Number 010-231-317/AEEK
Serial Number 13032408
Lucky Numbers 5-12-08-24-32-65-156


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners of the lottery program held on the February 1st,2006 Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 010-231-317/AEEK with serial number 13032408 drew the lucky numbers 5-12-08-24-32-65-156, consequently won in the first category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of € 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euro Only) in cash. This is from a total cash prize of € 14,000.000.00 Euro (Fourteen million euro) shared among the Fourteen international lucky winners in the first category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
For security reasons and due to mix up of some numbers and names we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been process and your winning fund is Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000,000 individual and companies email addresses from all over the world.

This promotional program takes place every three years; the lottery was promoted and sponsored by some eminent personality and the owner of the largest software company in the Nederland's.
We hope you will be one of our lucky winners in our end of year international lottery bonanza.

To file for your claim contact our/your accredited agent
Mr. Hans Pieterson
Tel: 31-64-923-8846
Fax: 31-84-744-4605
Email: imperialnv@netscape.net

Not that all winnings must be claimed not later than March 24th, 2006. After this date all unclaimed winning fund will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications always remember to quote your reference number, batch numbers, ticket number, lucky number and serial number in all correspondence with our/your accredited agent.

Important Notice: should there be any change of address do inform our/your accredited agent as soon as possible. Thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly,
Dr.Robert Van Boseman
Lottery Coordinator.
De Lotto Nederlands

Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply this message. All correspondence should be to our/your accredited agent

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