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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • frankgarr026@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MRS UKEY.W.KAMP <info_kamp@hotmail.ca>
Reply-To: frankgarr026@hotmail.fr
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:23:36 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON 500 .000 EUROS


WORD LOTTO ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL
DE LOTTO JACKPOT STAAT.
PRIZE REMITTANCE DIVISION
Office Address:Laan van Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk
Postbus 3074
2280 GB Rijswijk
EMAIL: frankgarr026@hotmail.fr


LUCKY NO:0098976.
REF NO.10098
sera NO.5909009
BATCH NO.888kS,
TICKET NO.3401


Dear Sir/Madam

We are please to inform you that you have won a
lottery programme from WORD LOTTO ABONNEE
INTERNATIONAL. This is an official notification of
your lotto winning in the WORD LOTTO ABONNEE
AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (W.L.A.I) played on
May 19th, 2006 at the lottery office complex hall
Den-Haag Holland.

You have won a WORD LOTTO ABONNEE PRIZE OF €500,000,00
Five Hundred Thousand euro only, a prize payout of
your winning has been approved by the WORD LOTTO
ABONNEE in accordance with the Europe Millione lottery
ordinance, you are authorized as the lotto prize
winner to request claims of your winning prize.

The WORD LOTTO ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL AUTOMATIC
SUBSCRIPTION TICKET (W.L.A.I.) GAME is an online
promotional program organized by the WORD LOTTO
ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL .

After randomly selecting 1000,000 participants from an
initial database of 300,000 emails all participants
were selected through a computer ballot system from
the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and
South America as part our International Promotions
Program, which was conducted in view of launching
ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and
zoning all participants by their respective continents
from across the globe, we produced an extensive list
from which you have emerged as one of the winners of
the Grand Draw prize.

This promotional program takes place every four years.
Total of 1000,000 emails different email addresses are
entered for the WORD LOTTO ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL
AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (W.L.A.I). 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 300,000 email
addresses, and yours was luckily selected among 1-5
batch winners.

Note
********Note*********************Note**********************

That the WORD LOTTO ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL will remit
prize payout to only winners who email address
officially won,and will be aloud for their prize
claims. If you are not a resident of the Netherlands
you will be required to Legalize your winning file in
the Netherlands High Court of Justice here in Den Haag
the Netherlands.

You are required to file your claims by Contacting our
International Claim Department Center ; !!!English
Spoken Officer!!! (Mr.Frank Garrik.) Processing
officer. As soon as the Processing officer received
your winning information, your claim will be send to
the apappointed Lawyer for Legalization of your claim
file at the Netherlands High Court of Justice here in
Den Haag. There after your claim file will be send to
the pay bank for immediate remittance of your winning
prize of 500.000 Euro only.

NOTE!!!!!!!
All winners most claim his/her prize not later then
one week of this notification.


Tel;0031-62703298
EMAIL: frankgarr026@hotmail.fr
Mr.Frank Garrik
Processing Officer.


THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION
PRESIDENT WORD LOTTO ABONNEE INTERNATIONAL , ON BEHALF
OF W.L.A.I. GAMES 2005. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR
WINNING.

SINCERELY,
MRS. UKEY .W. KAMP.
PRESIDENT LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR. W.L.A. I.

N.B ; PLEASE SEND YOUR REPLY EMAIL TO THE PROCESSING
DEPARTMENT.
EMAIL frankgarr026@hotmail.fr
Mr.FRANK GARRIK
Processing Officer.

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