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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft lottery"
• 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.
  • +31619320610 (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.
  • netherlandslott@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "thomas judith" <micronotice001@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: netherlandslott@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:14:56 +0000
Subject: ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION!!

FROM: MICROSOFT LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT
NL, Netherlands.
Vendelstraat 207 1012 AX Amsterdam

Ref Number: QNL/4451/8860/04
Batch Number: XA3/312-59

Attn Lucky Winner,

ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

We hereby wish to inform you of the result of the resent annual draw
21-03-2006, of our International Lottery Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
29,400,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were
sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached ticket
Number: 334/ 660078, with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers
9-43-97.
You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $18,500,000.00. (Eighteen
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout,
This is from the total prize money of 47,900,000.00 US Dollars (Forty-Seven
Million, Nine Hundred Thousand US Dollars) shared among the international
winners in our 1st - 4th categories. CONGRATULATIONS!. 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 Certified and
Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:

**********************************************
Mr. Martin Goodman
Email:netherlandslott@netscape.net
Tel. No: +31-61-932-0610
Fax. No: +31-84-719-0398

**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Winning reference and Batch numbers:

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.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours Faithfully,

Jonathan Jones.
Promotion Manager.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
++++++++++++++[THIS IS NOT A FRAUD]+++++++++++++++++

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam