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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 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.
  • +31619114285 (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.
  • albert_smith3@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ALBERTSMITH" <postmaster2@afchambers.com>
Reply-To: albert_smith3@myway.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:22:13 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

EUROPIAN AWARD DEPT.
Tel:+31 619 114 285
Fax: 318 474 54671
WINNING NOTIFICATION
This is to Notify you of the release of the lottery winning,
held on the 17th of july 2006.
Due to the mix up of numbers, the results were
released on the 24st of july, 2006. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 16-1-8-36-4-10 under
agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number,which subsequently won
you the lotteryin the 2nd category.
You have therefore been qualified for a lump sum payout
of $2,000,000.00 (TWO Million DOLLARS) in cash drawn
in your favor, as the soul beneficiary and covered with the
highest level of Insurance policy called the
IRREVOCABLE GURANTY BOUND.
Due to mix up of some names and winning number, we ask that
you keep your winning information with confidentiality until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted
to you, in your perspective country. Because this is part of our
new security protocol to avoid double claiming and forgery
of winners identity in this program by some unscrupulous persons
All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer
ballot draw system, were we extracted over 20,000.00 companies
and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over
the world.
To begin your lottery claim, please contact your judiciary agent
below that has been appointed for the processing of
your claim with the email address below:
MR:Albert Smith
Tel:+31 619 114 285
Fax: 318 474 54671
EMAIL: albert_smith3@myway.com
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your WINNING
NUMBER in all correspondence.
Warning: All winners are to claim their winning prize in not later than
2 weeks (14 days) of their winning notification.
Winners are to contacts us to confirm thier winning
through the phone number displayed, before sending
an email this is done to aviod foggery and inpersonation
of winners information and ticket number.
And I want to inform winners that there are so meny
email letter all over the internet faking to
be real so be warrned!!!
Because this lottery program is wide open
to investigations and scrutiny, we are a
100% RISK FREE program, so fear nothing.
You can view our website for this lottery @ www.lotto.nl.
Note: That you are to respond to all the
necessary procedure involved in collecting your prize
And if you are not interested in claiming your prize.
You are advised to draft this office your REFUSAL LETTER
indicating that you are not interested in your winning
prize and it should be used for the next stake.
Furthermore, if you have given eny other person the pass word
to the email that won you this lottery, please notify us for
security reasons.
The online promotion lottery company is proudly
sponsored by a groupe of succesfull bussiness men all over
Europe , Internet draw is held once in a year and it is
organized, because we want to encourage the use of
Internet round the globe.
50 Million DOLLARS are won annually in more
than 150 countries worldwide.
Thank you once more for your
participating with us once more.
Your Sincerely,
Mr.Albert Smith
Public Relations Officer.
NOTE: ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE
PART OF ANY WINNER WILL RESULT
IN DISQUALIFICATION!
OUR Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations),
Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr.
James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Lonni K
Anderson (Legal Representative), Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional
Manager), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International
Relation Officer).




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