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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.
• 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.
  • +31629398841 (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.
  • gblconsult@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "euromiln@terra.es" <euromiln@terra.es>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:57:16 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: THIS IS A LEGITIMATE PROCESS




This represent an official notification of your winning in the just concluded final draws of the Euro Millions promotional program.

This process was drawn from 800,000 individual email addresses and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.

After this advanced automated ballot, your email address emerged as one of the winners in category "A" with the followings:

Ref No: EUM QN 09388-YT0
Batch No: EUM WL-3KNV
Ticket No: 55089-DR 46
Serial No: FQH-499
Lucky No: 10 28 40 47 48

Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in for their claim within the given time frame. To begin your claim process, you are advised to contact the program coordinator with the details below:

Mrs. Jacqueline Vanderhout
Tel: 31 629 398 841 (GMT +1 - 09:00 - 17:00 Hours)
Email: gblconsult@netscape.net

Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the gaming regulatory board which includes your statutory obligations.

You are to file in for the claim of Four Millions Five Hundred Thousand Euros(4,500,000.00

Thank you for being part of our program and congratulations!!!

Rene Bremer























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