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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.
  • dewnnaar170@yahoo.it (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: lottery manager promoter <lotterypromoter01@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:17:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON 1,000,000.00 EUROS!!!

Euro Millions Lottery.
Brenda 40, 1066Th Brussels
Belgium.
Euro Millions are Affiliate of Belgium National (BNL).
Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON 1,000,000.00 EUROS.

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners in the
Free Lotto draw held on the 29th september 2006.All 10
winning email
addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 International
Emails.
Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a
category 2 winner in
this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw. Consequently, you
have therefore
been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000
pounds(one million
pounds)only.
The following particulars are attached to your lotto
payment order:
(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622NETHERLAND
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/NETHERLAND
Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon
as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:
Mr. Kooi Van Morgen.
Director of Operation.
Email:dewnnaar170@yahoo.it
N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;
1. Please quote your Reference number in all
correspondence with the
claims officer.
2. Winners must send their names, address, telephone
number and means
of identification (international passport or drivers
license) to claim
officer to process immediate payment of their prize.
3. Winners should send to the claim officer address
where they desire
their prize paid or sent.
Once again on behalf of all our
staff,CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mr. Gidoi Van peter
Promotions Manager
Euro Millions Lottery.
Brenda 40, 1066Th Brussels
Belgium.


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