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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +31623269431 (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.
  • claimsrelease@netscape.net
  • fundsclaims@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • makatatracy@winning.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs Tracy Makata" <kingsinternl@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 13:33:41 +0700
Subject: OFFICIAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

NETHERLANDS LOTTERY GAMES INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMS
*********************************************************************
107 LELYLAAN STRAAT 1055 RG
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.
(Customer Services)
EMAIL::claimsrelease@netscape.net


13/05/2006.

DEAR WINNER:

OFFICIAL LOTTERY WINNING
NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw Number:124 of the NETHERLANDS ONLINE
LOTTERY DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME held on Sataurday 13th of May, 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number:56475600545188 with Serial
number:5368/02 drew the Winning Numbers:4-7-18-19-35-40
with(bonus no.25),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e. match 6 lucky numbers plus bonus no.25.Our winners are
arranged into four categories with different winning prizes

Accordingly in each category. They are arranged in this format below:

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 6
USD.$1,350,000:00 each
2nd. 20 USD.$850,000:00
each
3rd. 45 USD.$470,000:00
each
4th. 75 USD.$170,000:00
each


Your e-mail won you the prize in the 2nd category, you have therefore been
approved to claim the total sum of USD$850,000:00 (Eight hundred and fifty
thousand, United States Dollars) in cash credited to file. This is from a
total cash prize of USD$59 Million dollars,
shared amongst the first one hundred and forty six (146) lucky winners in
this categories.

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. This
promotion takes place annually.

your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
USD$850,000:00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars)will
be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for
VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine days of this winning
notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine days of
winning notification are termed void and invalid.

CONTACT:
*******************************************************************
File/Claim Officer
Mr.Duck Havard.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
International Remittance/Credit unit
Facility Management Region
(AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.
Tel: +31 623-269-431
Fax: +31 847-537-844
EMAIL:(fundsclaims@netscape.net]
********************************************************************

Note:Endeavour to email the Validating Officer your:
Full Names:
Winning Numbers:
Ticket Number:
Email Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Country:

To enable him validate your winning.Unvalidated winnings after Twenty-nine
days of winning notification will be termed invalid and void.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of KINGS ONLINE LOTTERY
DEPARTMENT.

Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
NETHERLANDS-LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS.


Sincerely Your's,
Mrs.Tracy Makata
makatatracy@winning.com.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail.

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is
intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain
information that is privileged,
confidential and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable
law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any
dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly
prohibited. If you received this message in error,
please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the
original message.

Contact your claims agent.

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