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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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.
  • +34653094637 (Spain, 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.
  • gmzjose24@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ROMAN BONO" <gmzjose24@yahoo.es> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:09:09 +0200
Subject: "WINNING NOTIFICATION" (Contact your claim agent)

LOTERIA PACIFICO INTERNACIONAL DE ESPAÑA
Prize Remittance Division (PRD).
ADD: CALLE GRANVIA 32N 1C MADRID SPAIN
REF: RSSL/61-ILGI0509/45
BATCH: RSSL/15/096/WRCS
DATE: 24/07/2006
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:-




Dear Prize Winner,
This email confirms that you have received from the LOTERIA PACIFICO INTERNACIONAL an official notification of your lotto winning in the LOTERIA PACIFICO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (L.P.A.S.T) played on 19th of July, 2006 at our lottery office complex Madrid, Spain.
You have won a PACIFICOLOTERIA PRIZE OF $ 850,000 USD, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the GROUPO LOTERIA PACIFICO INTERNACIONAL. In accordance with the
EUROPEAN lottery ordinance, to begin your lottery claims please contact your claim agent:-
MR ROMAN BONO of ( OCASO SECURITY COMPANY) Madrid - Spain.
(gmzjose24@yahoo.es).
TEL:-+34 653 094 637.
FAX: +34 912 72 51 96
The LOTERIA PACIFICO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET (L.P.A.S.T) GAME is an online promotional program organized by the LOTERIA PACIFICO INTERNACIONAL. A total of 500,000 different email addresses are entered for the LOTERIA PACIFICO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (L.P.A.S.T).
All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by our partner international email service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers. Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS). Your email ID was included among the 500,000 email addresses and entered for Batch 16125 with Ticket No.2912144 and was luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners. Note that the LOTERIA PACIFICO INTERNACIONAL will remit prize payout to only winners who officially file in for their prize claims. You are to choose one out of the listed option by which you want your prize remitted to you:
(1) A certified Bank to Bank swift wire transfer to any of your given bank co ordinate.
(2) Travelling to our office in Madrid-Spain for personal collection of winning prize, you are required to file your claims to the email address above for the processing and remittances of your fund.
OCASO SECURITY COMPANY S.A. will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds into your designated bank account, and be notice that all prize funds must be claimed not later than 30 days. After this date all funds will be returned to the lottery treasury as unclaimed funds.

Best regard,
Roman Bono.

Anti-fraud resources:

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