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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: Jose Miguel <mariolonso@terra.com.mx>
Reply-To: josemiguel26@excite.com
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:51:30 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!





LA PRIMITIVA LOTERIAS
CALLE LEGANES 790
FUENLABRADA, MADRID - SPAIN.


From: International Promotion/Prize Award Dept.



To: Respected Winner,

The result of the just concluded annual final draws of the La primitiva Loterias International Promotion program held on 1st of September,2006.

The on-line cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies from all over the world picked by an advanced automated random computer ballot search from the Internet; no tickets were sold for international winners, it was randomly generated. After this automated computer ballot random selection, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following references:

REF NO: LP/12651047137/06
BATCH NO: 28/90317/IPD
TICKET NO: 024-1969838-652
SERIAL NO: 13663-05
LUCKY NO: 27 - 28 - 31 - 34 - 35 - 42

You are therefore to receive a cash prize of US$ 946,000.00 ( Nine Hundred &Fourty Six housand United States Dollars Only) in first category from the total payout. Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report of your personal bio-data.

To begin the claim of your prize money, you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent below:

Mr. Jose Miguel
Foreign payment manager
Tel No.: 0034692457210

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PRIZE CLAIM:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process, failing which would lead to
disqualification and winnings Forfeiture. Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.

(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge your acceptance to be added to our lottery master player database.

(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic mailings which will include, but are not
limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master players, from all the sponsoring entities.

(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the discretion to be removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from this and subsequent lottery entries. Removal instructions are on every mails.

(g) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy policy of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or the illegal use of information about our Players/winners. Remember to quote your reference and batch numbers information's in all of your correspondence with our agents.

Anybody under the age of 18 Years and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Morales Carlos Lopez
Lotto coordinator

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