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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.
  • +34685368288 (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.
  • ocaso1@skim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: ocaso national <ocaso@ocaso.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:11:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?NOTIFICATION=C2=A1=C2=A1?=


22ND SEP. 2006

Dear Winner,
We are pleased to
announce
you as third category winner of this years
annual LA PRIMITIVA
Award. All
winning addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of
50,000,000
international emails. Consequently,you
have therefore been
approved
for
a total pay out of 750,000.00euros
(Seven hundred and fifty thousand
euros)only.
The following
particulars
were attached
to your
lotto
payment order
(i)Lucky numbers:
8-67-44-23-69-33 (ii) Ticket
number:
22413965456-7344 (iii) Batch
Number:
ECVC/15/768/TVHS (iv)
Lottery Ref Number:
OSS/232-ILGI0412/05
(v) Serial Number: ES-
498-5780-18
Your
security file
number is ES-
ES9980490465SD. Please
contact the
underlisted claims
officer as soon as
possible for the
immediate
release of your winnings:
Name: MR. LUIS RAUL
OCASO INSURANCE COMPANY
Email:
ocaso1@skim.com,
TEL: +34 685 368 288 FAX: +34 692 956 985
After the acknowlegement
of the receipt of
this winning
notification you
would be sent a
lottery claims/Apraisal
form to
fill and submit to
our lawyer who
will carry out the legalisation of
the transfer of
your
winning.Do not
forget to quote your reference
number in all
correspondence.
contact the
underlisted claims officer as
soon as possible for
the
immediate release of your
winnings:
Once
again on behalf of all
our staffs we
are
wishing you a big
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours sincerely,
Rita Bennett
For Claims Officer
The Lotto Company,Spain.

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