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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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 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.
  • giroverificatie@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "marga ron" <marga@pilu.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:54:16 -0300
Subject: CONTACT MR. CEES JAN WILLIAM FOR DETAILS.


CONTACT MR. CEES JAN WILLIAM FOR DETAILS.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAMME.
RESULT OF CATEGORY A.

www.bankgiroloterij.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the email
lottery programmed draw of the BANKGIRO LOTTERY NL. Held on the 10th March
2006. The late release of this result was due to difficulties encountered in
sorting out mixed up numbers and email addresses. All 10 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 5,000,000 emails addresses and your
email address emerged alongside with 10 others as a winner in this year's
euro millions award Draw.
Most recently the foundation set up the BANKGIRO LOTTERY to give out prizes
based on the computer ballot system (THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A
TICKET TO ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A
WINNER). Consequently, you have therefore been approved a MEGA JACK POT of
€ 1, 000,000.00 euros (One Million Euros) only .The following particulars
are attached to your lotto payment order:
(I) The file Ref number: BG/04679/SA
(ii) Result winning numbers: 8-16-19-43-45-1-4
(iii) Email ticket number: 754/22/76
To immediately claim your prize, contact your accredited agent on the
telephone number below.
BANKGIRO NATIONAL LOTTERIJ AGENT
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Mr. CEES JAN WILLIAM
TEL:0031-649-304-015
FAX:0031-206-006-898
EMAIL TO: giroverificatie@netscape.net
The above claim agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of
your prize funds to you, not later than two weeks After this date if you do
not contact and process your winning prize, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.
N.B: Terms and conditions to claim your prize:
**********************************************
1.Please quote your Reference number, your full name and address, Country,
Telephone, mobile, fax number, occupation and your age to your claim agent.
2.Yourwinning prize is not deductible until your winnings has been
processed, approved and transferred to you by your claim agent above.
3.If you are below 18 years of age, you are automatically disqualified. For
verification you are to visit our website.
Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!
Dayzers lottery encourages the use of Internet and this promotion program.
All information’s have to be kept out of public until you have received your
winning prize; this is to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of the
programmed by some participants.

Sincerely,
Mevrouw Anges Zwerus.
Promotions Manager
BankGiro lottery

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