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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 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.
  • primitivaloterias@terra.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • apex22@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: primitiva loterias <primitivaloterias@terra.com>
Reply-To: apex22@myway.com
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:19:18 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION




WINNING NOTIFICATION
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.
CALLE ALCALA-28290 MADRID-SPAIN
REF Nº: EPSL/25003189/SP/05
BATCH Nº:1007581999
ATTN: WINNER,
primitivaloterias@terra.com
RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE.
We are pleased to inform you of the release of the results LOTERIA
PRIMITIVA/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM, Held 22 July 2006 your email address name
attached to a ticket number 004-2046912-680 with serial number 9123-07
drew the lucky numbers 5-20-48-91-41-75 which consequently won the
lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum payout of €625,000.00 (Six Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Euros) in
cash credited to the file reference number: EPSL/25003189/SP/05. This
is from a total cash price of €20,368,770.00 (Twenty million three
hundred and sixty-eight thousand, seven hundred and seventy euros only)
shared among the seventeen international winners in this category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with our correspondence bank insured to your
name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you
keep this award from public notice until your claiming or unwarranted
taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from
Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe and North America as part
of our international promotions program which we conduct once every
year. We hope that with part of your prize, you will part-take in our end
of year high stake 2,300,000,000.00 international lotteries.
To begin your claim please contact your claim agent,
MMT SEGUROS.
Mr. Daniel Reyes
Foreign Services Manager
Email: apex22@myway.com
Tel: 0034 625 217 426
For processing and remittance of your prize fund into your designated
bank account .
Note: All prize funds must be claimed before the 7TH of August 2006
after this date all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y
HACIENDA as unclaimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please endeavour to quote your reference and batch numbers in

every correspondence with us to your claim agent. Furthermore, should
there be any change in your address do inform your claim agent as soon as
possible. Congratulation once again from all members of our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotion program.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this email address.
Contact your claim agent.
Best Regards
Mrs. Louisa Santos
(The Management)

Anti-fraud resources:

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