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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.
  • services14ab@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, " <davolemendes10@yahoo.se>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:13:52 +0800
Subject: PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,

PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, SWEDISH-PLAYTAKE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS, HEAD OFFICE, MILAN - VIA ALESSIO DI TOCQUEVILLE 13 ITALY. Ref Number: SWE/074OY8/01/SWKY Batch Number: 06/00/2107 Ticket Number: 018-00741234-057 Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of SWEDISH-PALYTAKE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the first Category, which is part of our promotional draws.The draws and winners have been officially announced . Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: 018-00741234057 with Batch Number: 06/00/2107 Drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ONE MILLION EUROS (1,000,000.00) in cash credited to Ref Number: SWE/074OY8/01/SWKY made available from a total cash prize of 10 Million EUROS, shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. This year"s Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest . The estimated 13 million EUROS jackpots would be the third-biggest in history of our lottery program. Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. ONE MILLION EUROS (1.M EUROS) would be released to you by our approved paying bank in The-Netherlands. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Be informed that winnings are deposited with the European Central Bank according to the rules and regulattions of the program and the paying bank will be responsible for the remittance of funds to winners.This is in your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to you. NOTE: As a part of ensuring immediate remittance of funds to winners,The organisers have given strict instructions to SNS BANK on remittance of winnings to winners.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/non-participants of this program.Please contact your accreditted paying Bank immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:You are advised to contact the Bank immediately by email.Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.NOTE: For easy refference and identification, find below your Refference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote with your paying Bank the followings, for verifications Your full names Telephone numbers and fax Winning and batch numbers Ticket numbers. Address. Age Occupation. To file for your claim,please SNS BANK Foreign operation manager *************************************************************************** ************************************** MR.Alex Clement SNS Bank Foreign operation manager Herengracht 320 1107 CA Amsterdarm, Netherlands E-mail:services14ab@netscape.net Tel: 0031 644-853-140. Fax: 0031-847-235-420. *************************************************************************** *************************************** NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 10 days from the date on first Notification. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your Paying Bank You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Be informed that Members of the affiliate agencies and banks, are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.Congratulations once again from all our staff and we hope you claim your price immediately. Sincerely Yours, MRS.DAVOLE MENDES. International Lottry Co-ordinator.

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