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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.
  • +31616075222 (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.
  • nitiaxclaim@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Larien Wijk <larien@larienwijk.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:55:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM: LARIEN WIJK


FROM: LARIEN WIJK
NEW OFFICE:YOUNG-SU STR. 11,
1018WB UTRECHT,
THE NETHERLANDS.
Re: CLAIM/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
DRAWS FOR CATEGORY "C"
Lucky Winner,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the third Category draws of NL LOTTO PROMO. which you emerged as a winner under this third Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were officially released on the 6th of October, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from various continents expecially from the third nations of the world; Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to Ticket number 4693907719,with a Serial number 472-9768 and Lucky number W-91237-H/67/B4 consequently won in the Third Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of € 520,000 (Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Euros), which is the winning payout for Category C winners.

This is from a total cash prize of € 6,000,000.00 (Six Million Euro) shared amongst the first Twelve (12) 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 processing of your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double - claim or unscrupulous acts by Participants/non-participants of this program. Please contact our processing Legal agency (NITIAX CONSULT BV) with your detailed numbers.
Lucky number: W-91237-H/67/B4
Ticket No : 4693907719
BATCH No : NM/207161/WOP.
**************************************************************************************************
Contact person: Mr. Aaron smith.
(Inter. Remittance Department).
Email: nitiaxclaim@aim.com
Tel: 0031-616-075-222
Fax: 0031-847-537-719
**************************************************************************************************
NOTE: All claims are nullified after 21 working days from your first contact with your agent if not responded to and participants below the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. LARIEN WIJK
(Lottery Coordinator).

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam