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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +31627032938 (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.
  • winneremail2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • winneremail2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: COCA COLA INFORMATION. <winneremail06@netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:19:51 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?CONTACT_PRIZE_REMITTANCE_DIVISION_YOU_HAVE_WON_=80_500.000.00?=



COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY PROGRAM
LUCKY NO:000/589.
REF NO.3698
sera NO.000/005
BATCH NO.003/LS,
TICKET NO.4479


Dear Sir/Madam

We are please to inform you that you have won a lottery programs .This is an official notification of your lottery winning in the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM automatic subscription ticket game (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)played on 19Th April, 2006 at the complex hall Den-Haag Holland.

You have won a prize from (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)of €500,000,00 Five Hundred Thousand euro only, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the (C.C.D.N.I.L.P) in accordance with the Europe Millione lottery ordinance, you are authorized as the lottery prize winner to request claims of your winning prize.

Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS).Your email ID was included among the 8000,000 email addresses, and yours was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.

Note ********Note*********************Note**********************

That the COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM will remit prize payout to only winners who email address officially won, and will be aloud for their prize claims.You are required to file your claim.

Please contact the appointed lottery Group KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND fiducial agent Mr.Garrik Frank, this office will process your claim file and send your file to the pay bank for the remittance of your prize payout of € 500,000 euro only. Your winning fund have been cover with insurance that know cent will be deducted from your winning. This is to be sure that our winners received the exact amount won of € 500,000.00

NOTE ; OPTION OF PAYMENT.

1]. Do want you want travil to The Netherland yourself to process your winning ?

2] Do you want the appointed Lottery Group to process you winning on your behalf ? KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND.
3. Note ; Your winning file will be legalze before your file will be sent to paying bank.

Please you are advise to write clearly in your reply email to the processing office the option you prefer. All winners most claim his/her prize not later then one week of this notification. And you advise to contact the processing agent by sending your reply to the below lottery office email address;


KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV NETHERLAND.
PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION
Office Address:Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk Noord.
Fiducial agent Mr. Frank Garrik.
Processing Officer.
Tel; 0031-627032938.
EMAIL: winneremail2006@netscape.net



THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT COCA COLA DIGITAL NETWORK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM, ON BEHALF OF (C.C.D.N.I.L.P) GAMES 2006. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.

SINCERELY,
MRS.UKEY .K.ANDERSON
CO-ORDINATOR. (C.C.D.N.I.L.P)


N.B. ; TO PROCESS YOUR CLAIM PRIZE,SEND YOUR REPLY EMAIL TO ; winneremail2006@netscape.net

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