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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.
  • +31616064746 (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.
  • goldstar001@mail.nu

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM: GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMESFROM: GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMES" <goldstar0102@mail2world.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:23:18 +0300
Subject: FROM: GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMES

FROM: GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMES
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
RE:AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES PROMOTION held
here in the Netherlands on the 3rd of January 2006.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet. No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot,
your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A"
with the following:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LMI
Batch Number:2637/2312-LMI/2005
Ticket Number:967666233

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive
a cash prize of 1,500.000.(ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS
ONLY) each from the total payout. Your prize awards 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 begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised
to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"
winners with the informatiom below:

Mr.Van Dirk
Financial Director,
GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMES
Netherlands Company,De Amsterdamse
Poort Bijlmerplein
776 1102 MG Amsterdam
1001 BV Amsterdam
E-mail:goldstar001@mail.nu
Tel:+31-616-064-746
Fax:+31-847-499-708

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims
process,failing which would lead to disqualification and
winnings Forfeiture. Winners are therefore advised to expedite
their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute
entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms
and conditions of claims toavoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment
of your prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your
winning details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting
from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners
will be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by
the oath of secrecy taken on employment.

(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge
your acceptance to be added to our lottery master player
database.

(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic
mailings which will include, but are not limited to; Newsletters,
Invitations to Play, Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would
be of interest to our master players, from all the sponsoring
entities.

(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the
discretion to be removed from any such mailing list which
automatically disqualifies you from this and subsequent lottery
entries. Removal instructions are on every mails.

(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy
of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make
available for sale, rent, lease or the illegal use of information
about our Players/winners.

Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence.

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate
agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.


Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Inge De Groot
GOLDSTAR ONLINE E-GAMES
Netherlands International programs all response should be mail to
goldstar001@mail.nu

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