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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.
  • +31645535557 (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.
  • alexrudd@alex4all.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: WALTER JONES <luckydaynl@hutchcity.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:09:40 +0200
Subject: RE: ELIGIBLE WINNER (CONGRATULATIONS)

FROM: THE DESK OF MANAGING DIRECTOR
LUCKYDAY LOTTERY
HEAD OFFICE AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
REF: EGS/2551256003/04
BATCH: 14/0017/IPD
CODE NO: 573881545-NL/2006


Dear Eligible Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the luckyday Lotto draw held on the
15th of September 2006. All 10 winning Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as category A Winners in this year's
Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of €450,000.00
(Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro) only.

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your
winnings and also send him the information requested below:

QUAD CRUISE NL

Contact Person: Mr. Alex Rudd

Tel: +31 645 535 557
Fax: +31 633 810 299
Email: alexrudd@alex4all.com


1. NAME IN FULL:........................
2. ADDRESS:.............................
3. NATIONALITY:.........................
4. Sex:.................................
5. AGE:.................................
6. OCCUPATION:..........................
7. PHONE/FAX:...........................
8. COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE..................

N.B:

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep your Winning information
confidential until your claims have been processed. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participant.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications always remember to quote your Reference and
Batch numbers in all correspondence with the claims officer and be notify also that all winnings must be
claimed not later than 2nd of October, 2006. After this date all unclaimed winnings will be null and void.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Sincerely,
Walter Jones
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company


The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba,
Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of The
Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in
more than 150 countries worldwide.
We also encourage you to visit our website at www.luckyday.nl and Take your chance to play and
become part of our annual winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis on one of the world's most famous
lotto Service.

Anti-fraud resources:

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