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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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.
  • staatinfo@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mariska nowak" <staatcommunication6@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:08:12 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON.
REF Number: SW/90/0021/7896/56
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First
Category draws of THE MICRO PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you
have emerged a winner under Category "A", which is part of our promotional
draws. The draws are being officially announced today 30th of August, 2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses 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 drew the lucky numbers W-91237-H°67/B4 and consequently won in the
First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million
Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.This is from a
total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 Million Euros shared amongst the first Ten
(10) lucky winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.In your best interest to
aviod 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 your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
You are advised to contact the agents by email.Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and
Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims
agent.
REF Number:SW/90/0021/7896/56
BATCH No: :34/0065/KJY
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
MR.SANDER WILLIEM.
Claims Processing Manager
Email:staatinfo@aim.com
Tel:0031-613-780-694.
Fax:0031-841-201-453.
***********************************************
All winnings must be notarized to complete the claim process;
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
Sincerely Yours,
MRS.MARISKA NOWAK.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

_________________________________________________________________
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