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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTO.NL" <infol2006no@zwallet.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:37:06 +0300
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON THE LOTTO

LOTTO.NL
Patenleen 23, 2288ee Rijwik
Den Haag, the Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Sub<SPAN>scr</SPAN>iber Agents).
From: Joan Van Henk (Lotto Coordinator)
Website: www.lotto.nl

ATTN: YOU A<B>RE</B> WON C0NTACT OUR PAYING BANK.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lott<SPAN>o NL </SPAN>Winners International programs held on the 25th May,2006.Your e-mail address at<I>t</I>ached to ticket #:0090<SPAN>3228100 with prize # 778009/UK drew
1,00</SPAN>0,000.00 which was first in the 2ndclass of the draws. You are to receive1,000,0<EM>0</EM>0.00 (one Million Euros).Because of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask that you keep your winning info<FONT face=Courier>rm</FONT>ation confidential until your money (1,000,000.00) has been fully remitted to<STRONG> y</STRONG>ou by our accredited pay-point bank.

This measure must be adhere to avoid loss of
your cash prize - winners of our cash prizes are ad<EM>vi</EM>sed to adhere to these instructions to forestall the abuse of this program by other
participants. <FONT color=#3223c3>It</FONT>'s important to note that this draws were conducted formally, and winners are selected <SPAN>through an internet b</SPAN>allot system from 60,000 individual and companies e-mail addre<FONT face="MS Sans Serif">ss</FONT>es - the draws are conducted around the world through our internet based ballot system. The prom<S>o</S>tion is sponsored and promoted by Lotto-NL. We congratulate you once ag<FONT color=#22a067>ai</FONT>n.
We hope you will use part of it in our next draws, the jackpo<STRIKE>t</STRIKE> winning is ?85million.

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in <STRONG>th</STRONG>e next sweepstake.

Please, in order to avo<FONT face=Arial>id</FONT> unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote personal and winn<U>i</U>ng numbers in all
correspondence with us. Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto NL. <STRIKE>T</STRIKE>hank you for being part of our promotional program.
For immediate release of your cash prize to you, please kindly contact our paying bank address belo<I>w</I>. Send them the following informa<S>t</S>ion's:

(i) Your names.
(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers.

(iii) Contact Address.
(iv) Your winning numbers.
<EM> (v</EM>) Quote amount won.
{vi} Notification Date.

Contac<SPAN>t person: Mr. Patrick Rowley
Email:leedbv@n</SPAN>etscape.net
Tel: 00 31 633 701 450

Congratulation once again
Your in <I>se</I>rvice,
Joan Van Henk (Lotto Coordinater}

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