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

Fraud email example:

From: "mary vander" <mvander@narek.tv>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:17:04 -0800
Subject: YOUR US$2M WIN FROM MS. VANDER:

YOUR US$2M WIN FROM MS. VANDER:
LUCKY DAY INTERNATIONAL:
118 Marcopolostraat, 1053 N- Ams,
The Netherlands.
Tel/Fax: +31-84-754-7028

Sir/Madam,

RE: YOUR PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you about your lottery winning. In the lottery drawn on the 9th of March and released on the 10th of March, you won the lump sum of US$2 Million. Your winning prize (US$2 M) was from a total cash pool of US$10 Million shared among five lucky winners. The lottery is a promotional programme co- sponsored by a major software provider aimed at encouraging Internet users. All participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 company and 500,000 individual email addresses all over the world.

Note:
1. You are required to keep your winning private from public notice until you receive your US$2 Million. This is part of our security protocol to avoid disclaimer and unwarranted abuse of the programme by participants. An instance was the disclaimer to the lump sum lottery winning prize of US$162M in USA in January, 2005. The disclaimer later apologised publicly (our source: CNN). We do not want to experience this ugly situation.
2. As an Internet user, your email address is qualified for the lottery draw.
3. Lucky No: == 1-5-17-31-51-60 , Batch No: == :AK-1433 , Ref.No CR/0237821020NL , Ticket No: == KD613310,
4. Under 18 years is automatically disqualified.
5. Winning prizes must be claimed not later than 5th April March, 2006.

To receive your prize, do please contact our fiducial agent (Mr. Steve Olea) at: ( oleascontacts@netscape.net OR luckyydag@financemail.net ). Or through Fax number +31-84-754-7144. You are advised to include your Lucky Number, Batch Number, Age, Occupation, Address, Telephone and Fax numbers when contacting your agent. Inform your agent any change of address during the perid of claiming your prize.

Accept our congratulations and thank you for being part of our promotional programme.

Regards,
Mrs. Mary Vander (The Deputy Director Int'l Promotion/Prize Award Dept.)

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