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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +31649372252 (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.
  • agent@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ama" <amahmmed2002@netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:58:24 +0200
Subject: Notification from Ama

FROM: THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION DEPT.
SECURITY FILE NO:DAL/678921/C11.
REF: ICL/4245678609/LMR.
BATCH: ML/91663/BAN.
We are pleased to inform you that your email has been selected a winner
of the NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES EMAIL AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAMS held this
year!!Your
email address attached to ticket number 023-56678230,
drew the lucky numbers 7-14-21-42-49-59, batch number ML/91663/BAN,and
consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of $1,600.000.00
(One million Six Hundred thousand dollar only) in credited to file Lottery
Reference number ICL/4245678609/LMR.
This is from total prize money of $25,000,000.00 shared among the 5
international winners in categories B with security file
number:IL/FLW/12-C036789192.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
45,000 company email addresses and 80,000,000 individual email addresses
from All the Five
CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD including the continents of OCEANIA as part of
International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a financial Security
company insured in your FILE REFERENCE.Due to the mix up of some numbers and
names, We ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

This lottery programme was promoted by group of GIANT Media firms and major
independent e-business marketers,and this years promotions is held in the
Netherlands.We hope with part of your prize,
You Will be kind enough to donate to some charity organizations and support
the works of less priviledge individual through major charity homes.
Pls inform of us of your willing to support ans we shall include your names
and profile along and send it to one of the charity home in need.To file for
your claim, please contact our fiduciary Agent with the following details:

*YOUR FULL NAME
*TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
*SECURITY FILE NUMBER
*REFERENCE NUMBER
*BATCH NUMBER
********************************************************************
Mr.CLITON DOGLAS(esq.)
NATIONAL EMAIL AWARD FIDUCIAL AGENCY.
TEL: +316 493-72-252
FAX: +31-847 47-4087
Email: info-agent@excite.com
*********************************************************************
Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly
upon satisfactory Report, verifications and validation provided by our
processing Agent,
that would be designated to your file. For due processing and remittance of
your winning prize to your designated account of your choice.
Be informed that all prize money must be claimed not later than 21Th of
June 2006.After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you are to
contact Mr.Armstrong with followings details below:
1.Your full names, telephone, contact address and
2. quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or
our designated agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional Program.
Yours sincerely,
Ms,Ama Ahmmed

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners willresult to
disqualification
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This communication together with the information it contains is Intended
for the person/s /
organization/s named above and for no other person/s /or organization/s,
and
May be confidential and protected by law.Unauthorised use, copying or
disclosure of any and/or all of it may be unlawful.
Should this communication be received in error, please contact the
appropriate authourity immediately by means of a return email.
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