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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 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.
  • wagraphbank@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Postcodeloto-nl <infonlloto@steam.to>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:05:13 +0200
Subject: YOU ARE ONE OF OUR WINNERS:

POSTCODELOTTO NL.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.
Koningen Julianaplein 21, 2391BD
Den Haag,The Netherlands
www.postcodeloterij.nl

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS

Dear Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category
draws of THE POSTCODELOTTO NL. PROMO., INTERNATIONAL programs, held on the 8th Sept.,
2006. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged as a winner under the 2nd Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The results of the draws have been officially announced .Participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from America, Asia,Australia,Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket Number:NM/BC921245/KY14,with Prize
Number:NM/207161/WOP and lucky number W-91237-H67/B4, consequently won in the 2nd
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 B winners.This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 (Ten Million
Euros) shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

In your best interest to avoid 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 claims and unscrupulous acts by
Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact our paying bank immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Ticket and Prize numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them the following
informations

Your name.
Contact telephone and fax numbers.
Contact Address.
Ticket Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
Prize Number: NM/207161/WOP.
Amount Won.
Notification Date.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

To begin your claims,kindly contact the paying bank address with your information:

*****************************************
Contact Person:Mr.Edward Sager
Email: wagraphbank@gawab.com
Tel: 00 31 644 965 097

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

NOTE: All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed.
Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thanking you for being part of our promotions
program.

Yours Sincerely,
Joan Van Henk(Lottery Coordinator).

Anti-fraud resources:

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