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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "a security company " (this will cost you money - that's what the scam is about)
• 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.
  • +34626974671 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS MARE-CARMEN ALVARO <winners@elgordo.es>
Reply-To: mtschurtado@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:39:43 +0200
Subject: URGENT,PLEASE CALL YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.


LOTERIAS Y APUESTAS DEL ESTADO
Piso 36, calle Carlos Ortega
28002, Madrid, Spain.
TEL: +34- 639-571-283


REF Nº: EGL/417331247/03
BATCH Nº: 72/50685/MMH

ATTN : BENEFICIARY.

EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the release today of the EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA
LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME held on the 17th of March 2006.Your name was entered as a dependent client with reference Nº:EGL/417331247/03 and batch Nº:72/50685/MMH. Should there be any discrepancy in your name and address please contact MUTUAL TRUST SECURITY COMPANY,S.A.

All names entered in the program were presented by our international marketing department in conjunction with world residential white pages, humanitarian organisations, and the help of Embassies and chambers of commerce of countries in Europe, Australia, North and South America,The Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.Your name attached to ticket number: 0016-359142-07, with serial number: 52201-61drew the lucky winning numbers : 14-26-29-32-42-48. Which subsequently won the lottery in the Second category. You have therefore been approved for a winning payment of Euros 437,510.24(FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS,TWENTY FOUR CENTIMOS) in cash credited to file claims number: EGL/417331247/ 03.This is from a total cash prize of euros 2,625,061.04 (TWO MILLION,SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND,SIXTY ONE EUROS AND FOUR CENTIMOS). Shared among SIX international winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

All lucky winners were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Nineteen thousand names from around the world as part of our international promotions which we conducted.Your fund is now deposited with a security company insured in your name with an insurance bond policy coverage. Due to a mixed up of names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award away from public notice untilyour claim has been processed and your fund remitted to you. As this is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participants.
To begin your claim, please contact Snr.Carlos Hurtado Foreign Services Manager of MUTUAL TRUST SECURITY COMPANY S.A .On TEL: +34-626 974 671 & FAX: +34-626 974 686, (9am-7pm Monday-Friday,9 a.m to 2 p.m Saturdays, Spanish time), who are your sole agent for the processing and remittance of your fund.

NOTE: All prize money must be claimed not later than 23rd of June 2006.After this date,the fund will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed.We congratulate you and thank you for being a part of our international promotional programme.

Sincerely,

MRS MARIE-CARMEN ALVARO

FOR

DR.ANTONIO GOMEZ.
VICE PRESIDENT

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