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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)
• 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)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS UKEY <info_kamp@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: winneremail2006@netscape.net
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:53:09 +0200
Subject: YOU ARE LUCKY WINNER


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 12TH MAY 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 Natherland yourself to
process your winning ?

2] Do you want the appointed Lottery Group to process
you winning on your behalf ? KRASLOTEN LOTTO BV
NETHERLAND.

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.
Fax; 0031-84721 5368.
EMAIL: winneremail2006@netscape.net

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