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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:

• 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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • +31644865470 (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.
  • promotion6000@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • programme2006@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Staats Lotterij International <programme2006@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:24:25 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS(YOUR EMAIL WON THE LOTTERY)

STAATLOTERIJ NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT
Koningen Julianaplein 21, 2391 BD
Denhaag, The Netherlands

RESULTS FOR
CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Sir/Madam,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category
draws of THE STAATLOTERIJ NL.PROMO INT,held on 7th of AUGUST, 2006. We are happy to inform
you that you have
emerged as a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The results of the
draws hve been officially announced .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 2,500,000 emailaddresses of individuals and companies from
Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as
part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 46939,with serial number 472-9768 and lucky
number W-91237-H?67/B4 consequently won in the First Category. You have
therefore been awarded a lump sumpay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Dollars), which is the winning
payout for Category A winners.

This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Dollars) shared
amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from
public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact our paying
bank (leed capital Bank) immediately for due processing and remittance
of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch
numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with
your claim agent.Also give them the following informations:-

Name
Age
Address
Occupation
REF Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No:
NM/207161/WOP.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To begin your claims, kindly contact
the claim agent with the below information:
***********************************************
Contact person:Mr Roy Van Jeff
E-mail: promotion6000@netscape.net
E-mail: programme2006@netscape.net
Tel: 0031-644-865-470
Fax: 0031-847-104-277
***********************************************

NOTE: All claims must be claimed by all participant through their claim agent. Congratulations
once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being part of our promotions program.


Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Rita Remco

(Lottery Coordinator).

Anti-fraud resources:

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