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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.
• 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 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.
  • capitolbank@iwon.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Lotto.nl <claimpriz@lotto.nl>
Reply-To: capitolbank@iwon.com
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:57:34 +0200
Subject: (WINNER OF Eur.1,500,000.00)....Your Email Have Won!


(WINNER OF Eur.1,500,000.00)....Your Email Have Won!

LOTTO.NL

PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF No: DEN/231-ILGI0431/06
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No:20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99

WINNING EMAIL NOTIFICATION.

Dear Lucky Winner,

Compliments of the season,Congratulations to you as we bring to your
notice, the results of the Free Email Computer Ballot Jackpot 'A' draw 1st
Category of LOTTO.NL.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs held today.

Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 20511465463-7644 with Serial
number 472-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99,which
consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for
a lump sum payout of Eur.1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Euros).
This is from a total cash prize of Eur.10,000,000.00 Million shared
amongst Ten International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by LOTTO.NL
(Biggest lottery Organization in the Netherlands) to
advertise to the world its existence. All participants were selected
through a computer ballot systemdrawn from over 50,000 companies and
2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world, as part of
our international promotions program, which we intend to conduct several
times a year.

Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority
to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in
readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated mode of
payment within 48 hours of completion of the authentication.

Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a
double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly
confidential until your claim has been processed and notarized and your
certificate of award obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery
claim regulations by our Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control
Board.
This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse ofthis program by some
participants/non participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 10th june 2006. After this
date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next
stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
To file for your claim, please contact our paying out bank/your processing
agent

CONTACT:
CAPITOL FINANCIER & INSURER BANK.
Tel:0031-615-446-762
Fax:0031-847-301-120
(Transfer Manager.)
Mr. H. Van.Der Smit.
(Accounting Department)
Reply Email: capitolbank@iwon.com

NOTE: A copy of of this message has been sent to the accounting
dept./paying out bank.

All winnings must be notarized and a
certificate of award must be obtained from the Netherlands
Gaming Control Board to complete to effect transfer of your winning prize,
this certificate can only be obtained through legal representation in the bank,
so winners will be referred to an independent lawyer acting as a referee
to assist in this process. Winners are responsible for their legal/cost of
transfer charges.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
provide the following when replying:


Name:
Nationality:
Country of
Residence:
Occupation:
Tel number:
Ref no:
Batch no:


Delays will compel us to disperse your funds,
in other words, we shall divert your funds as stated above.
Kindly remember to quote your reference number number in all
correspondence.


Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of
this mail and note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held
responsible should there be any complications in this transaction due to
laxity on your part.
Congratulations once more from our members of
staff and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Yours truly,
Wendy Witkamp.
(Co-ordinator)

NOTICE: You have received this message from Lotto.nl prize
dept. at your winning e-mail address because you have emerged a winner.If
you are not the intended recipient, you must not,directly or
indirectly,use, disclose,distribute, print or copy any part of this
message. If you believe you have received this message in error,
please delete it and all copies of it from your system and
notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.


************DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE**********

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