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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:
  • "php-nuke powered site - http://yoursite.com" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +31649208996 (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.
  • claimsdepartment_frank@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: powerball2006game <claimsdepartment_frank@yahoo.es> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:08:13 +0700
Subject: NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING


POWERBALL LOTTO. BV
POWERBALL-WHEEL E-GAME 2006

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the POWERBALL
INTER LOTTO BV. The Netherlands of your email lottery winning for
2006 Powerball Lotto - Wheel E-game held on 25th January 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize
winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and
was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with
entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the
Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000
different email addresses where submitted by our partner
international email provider companies.

Prize Ref No.: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: US $2,000,000.00 Two Million Dollars Only
You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by
contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning
information provided above.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr. Frank Dikkens
Email: claimsdepartment_frank@yahoo.es
Tel: +31-649-208-996
Fax: +31-847-539-962

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming
Powerball Lotto-Wheel Email-games.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Juliet Matthew,
(Lottery Coordinator)



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