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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 about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • +31652257530 (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.
  • claimprocessinfo@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "dayzers thomas" <dayzerthnl07987@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:40:37 +0000
Subject: FORWARD YOUR CLAIM DETAILS!!!

FORWARD YOUR CLAIM DETAILS!!!
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAMME.
RESULT OF CATEGORY A



Dear Winner,
we are please to inform you result of category A of The International
DayzerS promotion Programme wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail
promotion address ballot promotions 7188, with serial number 074404/06 drew
with lucky numbers 93-65-04-36-10-43, and consequently you Won the lottery
in the (A) category.All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from Microsoft users from 30 Thousand company and individual
email addresses.
You are therefore been approved for a lump sum of One Million Euro.
(1,000,000.00 ) Be advice to keep your winning information confidential
until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is
part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program,

For the release of your winning,kindly contact the approved claims agent
with the following details:-
SERIAL NO:074404/06
REF NO: 0093456719/DZLNI
BATCH NO:52561505-DLNI/2006
MR.TONNIE VAN DER BERG
TEL: 0031-652-257-530.
FAX;0031-847-395-576
Reply E-mail: claimprocessinfo@netscape.net

Our agent will immediately commence Your claim process to facilitate the
Release of your funds as soon as you contact him and you are to quote your
lucky number for confirmation on your winning in every correspondences with
the claims agent.

All winning must be claimed not later than One month of rereceivinghis
Notice. After this date all unclaimed funds will be rereturnedo back to
European Union Treasury as unclaimed Fund. Furthermore, should there be any
Change of your address; do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible.Congratulations!! again from all our staffs and thank you for being
part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Theresa van Desh.
Director/Zonal Co-ordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam