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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +31633775037 (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.
  • lotto170@netscape.net

Fraud email example:

From: Netherlands NL <netherlands@emailwave.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:34:53 -0500
Subject: Annamaria markovits

CONTROLLER                                   LOTTO DE NETHERLANDS E MAIL WAVE LOTTERY                                                        234 ARENA TOWERS,1102EV                                                                           AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.                                                                         www.lotto.nl   FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER                                                   Dear Lucky Winner, ELEKTRONIK LOTTO PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of A Lotto International A Netherlands programs.The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following: Ref Number: PC 9590 ES 9414 Batch Number: 573881545-LNG/2005 Ticket Number: PCP 3502 /8707 You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of Euro 500,000.00. (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each from the total payout.Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"winners with the information below: Mr.Eric Roland Claim Processing Officer, LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION AGENCY. TEL:+31-633-775-037 FAX:+31-847-142-435 Email: lotto170@netscape.net   www.lotto.nl You are adviced to provide him with the following informations: 1.  Name: 2.  Phone/Fax number: 3.  Ref Number: 4.  Batch Number: 5.  Ticket Number:   NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Thank you and congratulations!!!                       Yours faithfully,                                                                        Annamaria Markovit                                                                                                Games/Lottery Coordinator. Lotto International Netherlands www.lotto.nl

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