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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:
  • "transfer of your funds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • custservices006@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <infonl2u@zwallet.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:41:52 +0200
Subject: LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS

LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMO<B>TI</B>ONS
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Koningen Julianaplein 21, 2391 BD
Denhaag, The Netherlands
www.lotto.nl


CONFERMATION OF RESULTS FOR ELECTRONIC EMAIL WINNERS



CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!


Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the r<EM>es</EM>ults of the electronic email users,selected in the lotto NL international lottery promotions. We

are happy to inform you that y<FONT face=Courier>o</FONT>u have emerged as a winner under the Second Category which is part of our annual promotional draws. The results of the draws

have been officially announced, and you emerged as a<FONT color=#d421 2> </FONT>winner.Kindly do not have doughts over your participation in this lottery, as all Parti<STRIKE>c</STRIKE>ipants were

selected through an electronic computer ballot system for all email users drawn from over 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,

America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, North American, and South American<I>.</I>


Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number NL1267OPLT,with serial number WO-170Z-X and lucky number 12,34,90,00,63,10 conseque<B>nt</B>ly won in the Second

Category. You have therefore been approved <SPAN>to receive the sum of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Second Category winners</SPAN>.This

is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 (<U>T</U>en Million Euros) which is the total sum for the Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.


In your best interest, Kindly keep your winning and batch numbers confidential to avo<EM>id </EM>mix up of numbers and names of any kind. We advice that you keep your

winning informations out of the general public inorder to avoid someone taking advantage of your winning informations, untill your funds have been remitted

to your account.T<SPAN>his </SPAN>is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please

contact our paying <I>ba</I>nk immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money.


NOTE: For easy reference and identific<SPAN>ation, find below your Reference a</SPAN>nd Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your

paying bank.Also give them the following informations<SPAN>

Name:

Telephone nu</SPAN>mbers and fax:

Age:

Address:

Occupation:

REF Number:LST/006/NL/LT1

BATCH No: BAT/LTNL/1236/0TY



Kindly be informed that your funds are presentl<SPAN>y depo</SPAN>sited at the Automated suspence account.To begin your claims, You are adviced to immediately open an

account with th<B>e </B>laagstehypotheekofferte.nl Bank to facilitate the transfer of your funds immediately. kindly contact the paying bank with the below

information:

***********************************************
C<STRIKE>o</STRIKE>ntact person:Mr VON VATT
laagstehypotheekofferte.nl
Amsterdarm,Netherlands

E-mail: custservices006@aim.com

Tel:0031-616-711-817<STRONG>
F</STRONG>ax:0031-847-235-420.

***********************************************

NOTE: All claims are nullifie<I>d</I> after 10 working days from today if unclaimed.Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being part of

our promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Van-Br<U>a</U>ok Florence
online co-ordinator

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