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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.
  • chartered02@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTO.NL" <infol2005wvnkh@walla.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:45:54 -0500
Subject: LOTTO.NL

LOTTO.NL,
2391<STRONG> Be</STRONG>ds 152 Koningin Julianaplein 21,
Den Haag, the Netherlands. <U>
</U>(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Susan Console
(Lottery Coordinator)
Website: www.lotto.nl
Sir/Madam,

CONGRATULATION<SPAN>S!!!
</SPAN>
We are please<STRONG>d</STRONG> to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL Winners International programs held on the<B> 2</B>nd, March, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket #: 00903228100 wit<B>h </B>
prize # 778009/UK drew €1,000,000.00 which was first in the 2ndclass of <U>t</U>he draws. You are to receive €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros). Becaus<B>e</B> of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask
that you keep your winning information confidential until your money (€1,000,000.00) has been fully<FONT color=#7011e2> r</FONT>emitted to you by our accredited pay-p<B>o</B>int bank. This measure must be adhere to avoid
loss of your cash prize - winners of our cash <SPAN>pri</SPAN>zes are advised to adhere to these in<FONT face=Courier>s</FONT>tructions to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants. It's important to note that this draws
were co<B>nd</B>ucted formally, and winners are selected through an intern<EM>e</EM>t ballot system from 60,000 individual and companies <SPAN>e-mail</SPAN> addresses - the draws are conducted around the world
through our internet based b<SPAN>allot sy</SPAN>stem. The promotion is sponsored and promoted Lotto NL. We congratulate yo<U>u</U> once again. We hope you will use part of it in our next draws; the jackpot
winning is €85million. Remember, <S>a</S>ll winning must be claimed not later than 20 days. After thi<S>s</S> date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited<FONT face="Times New Roman"> a</FONT>nd included in the next sweepstake. Please, in
order to avoid <SPAN>unnecessary delays and complica</SPAN>tions remember to quote personal a<STRONG>nd </STRONG>winning numbers in all correspondence with us. Congratulations once again fro<SPAN>m all members of Lotto NL.
Thank you for being part of our p</SPAN>romotional program.

For immediate <SPAN>release of your cash pr</SPAN>ize to you,
please kindly contact our Payi<STRIKE>n</STRIKE>g Bank
Send them the following information’s:
(i) Your name<U>s</U>,
(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Contact Address
(iv) Your winning numbers
(v) Quote amount won.
Contact person: <FONT color=#36c22f>Mr</FONT>. John kane
E-mail:<SPAN> chartered02@netscape.net
Tel: +31 6</SPAN>43 178 404

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Susan Console
ww<SPAN>w.lotto.nl
</SPAN>

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