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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.
  • +31647988154 (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.
  • glensstaatslot@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nederlands staatsloterij <netlotterij@aim.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:29:13 -0700
Subject: Congratulations, Your Email Address Won !!!

ONLINE PROMOTIONS
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Paleisstraat 25
2514 JA Den Haag
The Netherlands
www.staatsloterij.nl

FROM: STAATSLOTTERY NL. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.

REF: PREMIER WEB BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Staatslottery
International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the Internet. No tickets were sold as a result of bonuses gathered from ticket
winners to be offered to the entire public freely. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
emerged as one of five winners in the category "C" with the following numbers:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Serial Number: 26371545-LNI/2014
Ticket Number: 54866235

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of EUR450.000.00.( FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each. This is from a total pay out of EUR
2.250.000.00(TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EURO ONLY).

Your prize awards have been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your Prize winnings, you are advised to contact our claims manager for
category "C" winners with your ref, serial and ticket numbers with the information below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail: glensstaatslot@aim.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed before 25th of August 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds
would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important in order to avoid double claims as The Nederlands
Staatsloterij will not be responsible for a second claim due to misappropriation of claims procedures in any
form).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of The Nederlands Staatsloterij and affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Should there be any change of address do not
hesitate to notify our claims manager immediately.

Thank you and congratulations on behalf of the staffs and members of this lottery promotion program!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Kim Garcial (vise president)
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)

NB: Do not reply to this email, send all enquiries and your claims procedures via email or Fax to our claims
manager with details below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail:glensstaatslot@aim.com

Anti-fraud resources:

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