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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +31617370942 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: destinylottery@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:19:10 -0400
Subject: Re: Winner !!

DESTINY LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
(PAYMENT/FOREIGN DEPARTMENT)
KRUITBERG 100 A, 1104 BG,
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
TEL:+31-617-370-942/FAX: +31-847-301-193.

Attn. Winner,

With regards to your mail received and the contents well understood,we will like to futher highlight you on certain issues.

As you have been told before,you did not enter or play this lottery, What heppened was, the online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 20.000.00 companies/ corporate bodies and 30.000.000 individual email addresses from Europe, North & South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East and Africa, picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.Your Email address emerge as one of the winners in category A "NO TICKETS WERE SOLD".

As stated in the first mail to you,for proper official documentation/verification,You have to provide us with the following details below;

1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) AGE
4) OCCUPATION
5) MAILING ADDRESS
6) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
7) EMAIL ADDRESS

If you have any doubt you can withdraw your participation and forfeit your won-prize.otherwise we advice you to keep your winning to your self to avoid disqualifications.

You may call for more clarifications.

Best Regards,

Mr. Arnold Brown (Paying/Foreign Department Manager).

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