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

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTO.NL" <infol2005vdqegvl@walla.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:19:28 +0600
Subject: LOTTO.NL

LOTTO.NL,
2391 Beds 152 Koningin Juliana<STRONG>p</STRONG>lein 21,
Den Haag, the Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Susan Console
(L<U>o</U>ttery Coordinator)
Website: www.lotto.nl
Sir/Madam,

CONGRA<SPAN>TULATIONS!!!

We</SPAN> are pleased to inform you of the result of th<STRONG>e</STRONG> Lotto NL Winners International programs held on the 3rd, March, 2006. Your e-mail address a<I>tt</I>ached to ticket #: 00903228100 with
prize # 778009/UK drew €1,000,000.00 which was fir<B>st</B> in the 2ndclass of the draws. You are to receive €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros). Because o<FONT face="MS Sans Serif">f</FONT> mix up in cash pay-outs, we a<FONT face="Times New Roman">sk</FONT>
that you keep your winning information confidential until your money (€1,000,000.00) has been fully remitted to you by our accredited pay-point<STRIKE> </STRIKE>bank. This measure must be adhere to avoid
loss of your cash prize <SPAN>- winners of </SPAN>our cash prizes are advised to adhere<SPAN> to these</SPAN> instructions to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants. It's important to note that this draws <S> </S>
were conducted formally, and winners are selected through an<STRONG> i</STRONG>nternet ballot system from 60,000 individual and companies e-mail addresses - the draws are co<SPAN>nduct</SPAN>ed around the world
through our in<S>t</S>ernet based ballot system. The promotion is sponsored and promoted Lotto NL. W<FONT color=#fb23ed>e </FONT>congratulate you once again. We hope you will use part of it in our next draws; the jackpot
winning is €85million.<FONT color=#e28715> </FONT> Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date al<SPAN>l unclaimed cash prize will </SPAN>be forfeited and included in the next sweepstake. Please, in
order<U> </U>to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote personal and winning n<FONT face="Times New Roman">u</FONT>mbers in all correspondence with us. Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto<STRONG> N</STRONG>L.
Thank you for being part of our promotional program.

For immedi<S>a</S>te release of your cash prize to you,
please kindly contact our <SPAN>Paying Bank
Send them the f</SPAN>ollowing information’s:
(i) Your names,
(ii) <SPAN>Contact telephone and fa</SPAN>x numbers
(iii) Contact Address
(iv) Your winning <EM>nu</EM>mbers
(v) Quote amount won.
Contact person: Mr. John kane
E-mail: charteredbk@netscape.net
Tel: +31 643 178<SPAN> 40</SPAN>4

Congra<U>t</U>ulations once again.
Yours in service,
Susan Console
www.lotto.nl

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