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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")
  • "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 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.
  • infosegurval@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <eurolottery@nonomail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:58:21 +0200
Subject: EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION.


Message-ID: <be0b1854c54fa084810b1fd2ac98ff82@localhost>
X-Sender: eurolottery@nonomail.com
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION.

EUROMILLIONES ESPAÑOL S.L.
Av. Comunidad de Madrid,
37-41, Las Rozas
28008 Madrid,
España.

Ref: Nº: ES/EUR1410/05SP.
Batch Nº: ESP/0002005CV.

We happily announce to you the beneficiary to
this email address the draw of the EUROMILLIONES
ESPAÑOL S.L.e-mail online Christmas
International Sweepstakes program held on Friday
23td December 2005. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number 15-31-36-37-42 drew the lucky
star number: (1-7) Bonus ball which subsequently
won the email beneficiary in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of EUR ? 1,107,020.12. (One Million,
One Hundred And Seven Thousand, Twenty Euros.
Twelve Cents) in cash credited to Ref: Nº:
ES/EUR1410/05SP and Batch Nº: ESP/0002005CV.

All participants for the online version were
selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions,associations, and corporate
bodies that are listed online.

In view of this, your EUR ? 1,107,020.12. (One
Million, One Hundred And Seven Thousand, Twenty
Euros. Twelve Cents) would be process for claim
to you by our registered affiliated claims
agents for non-resident winners, sole
representative in asisting you to file and claim
your winning fund.

Our European registered agent which covers your
geographica location will immediately commence
the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as your contact is receive by
them. For security reasons, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential until
your claim is processed and your money remitted
to you. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program, any bridge of
confidentiality on the part of winner will lead
to disqualification, please be warn.

To file your claim, please contact our
registered affiliated claims agent:

Mr. Jose Daniel.
SEGURVAL AGENCIA DE SEGURIDAD S.A.
Plaza De Toledo, 014 Pta 65
28006, Madrid.
España.
E.mail: infosegurval@netscape.net

Remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers in all correspondence with your claim
agent.

Once again congratulations from all our members
and staff of EUROMILLIONES ESPAÑOL S.L.

Best regards,

Perez Manuel De La Rosa.
Promotion Director.



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