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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 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.
  • +447939253996
• 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.
  • elgordouk2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: elgordo2006@UniFish.de
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:45:26 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9_2006_El-Gor?=do Lottery

© 2006 El-Gordo Lottery
International GUZMAN EL BUENO, 187 C.P. 28008 MADRID ESPAÑA.




Attn:

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the EL GORDO LA PRIMITIVA SWEEPSTAKE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM which was held on the 26th April, 2006. Your name and address was attached to a Ticket Nr: 021750 with Serial Nr: 8293737 drew the Lucky No:6-11-22-39-45 which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of £4,000,0000.00 (Four Million pounds Only) in cash credited to the File Nr: DWS/902-761-903. This is from a total cash price of £40,000, 000.00 (Forty Million Pounds Only) shared among ten (10) International winners in this grand category. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your funds is now deposited in an escrow account with the Paying Bank in your name as beneficiary, and is covered with INSURANCE BOND to its value .We advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank account as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by the general public.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000:00 names and addresses from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America as part of our international promotions program which we conduct twice every year. We hope that with part of your prize, you will part-take in our summer (mid-year) high stake promotions agenda of $1,3BILLION international lottery.

To claim your Prize, you are to contact the claim agent below for the processing and remittance of your winning prize into your nominated bank account.

EL GORDO LA PRIMITIVA SWEEPSTAKE INTERNATIONAL
UNITED KINGDOM
DIRECTOR CLAIM DEPARTMENT
MR. JONAS GOMEZ
TEL: + 4479 3925 3996
FAX: + 4487 0133 4585
Email: elgordouk2006@netscape.net


Congratulations once again from all members of our staff

Best Regards

Mr. Alonso Louis Martinez

Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franco Zani, Rosa Nino (Domestic Operations) Dr.P.James (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Gomez (Executive) Mr. Jesus Lopez Copyright
© 2006 El-Gordo Lottery International

* Claims should be made within Ten (15) working days from the day of contact, delays will warrant disqualification;
* Lottery winnings will transfer via bank tranfer;
* Individuals not interested or unable to facilitate the claims to their winnings should forward an application stating their inability to avoid time wasting.

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