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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "lottery winners international e-mail programs"
• 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!
• 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.
  • +34699752404 (Spain, 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.
  • sanchezsec@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SPANISH EURO LOTTERY <euromillion212@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: sanchezsec@myway.com
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:57:02 +0200
Subject: YOU HAVE WON SPANISH EURO LOTTERY


EURO MILLIONS SPANISH LOTTERY
FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782:
RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE

Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions Spanish
Lottery Winners International E-mail programs held on the 31ST OF AUGUST2006 and result where release on the 8TH OF SEPTEMBER 2006. Your E-mail addressattachedto ticket number 653-908-321-675 withserial mainnumber
345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 34-32-90-43-32 which consequently
won in the 2ND category, you havetherefore been approved for a lump sumpay out of 1.000.000.00Euro.(One Million Euro)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keepyourwinning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and yourmoney remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid doubleclaiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. Allparticipantswere selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all overthe world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Spainsh European Lottery boardin order to enhance and promote the use of Internet Explorer Users and
Microsoft-wares around the globe. This promotional program takes placeevery three year. We hope with part of your winning you will takepart inourend of year 50 million Euro International lottery.
To file for your claim,please contact our fiducial agent:
DR.ROBERT SANCHEZ
(SANCHEZ SECURITYCOMPANYESPA?A)
CONTACT CLAIMS AGENT ON TEL:0034-699-752-404
Email:sanchezsec@myway.com
Remember, all winning mustbe claimed notlater than one month,After thisdate all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all
correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do informour agent as soon as possible.Congratulations once more from our membersof staff and thank you for beingpart of our promotional program.Note: Anybodyunder the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
MRS,FELISHA JOSE
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This message is confidential. It may also beprivileged orotherwise protectedby work product immunity or other legal rules.If you have received it pleaselet us knowby reply it from your system; youshould not copy it or discloseits contents to anyone. All messages sent to and from Sanchez SecurityCompany Espa?a may be monitored toensurecompliance with internal policiesand to protect your winning from the Euro Million Spanish Lottery AwardPromotion.
The contents of any email addressed to our clients are subject to our usualterms of business; anything which does not relate to the official businessofthe firm is neither given nor endorsed by it.

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