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

Fraud email example:

From: Van Kies Simone <simone@vankies2.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:32:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: E-MAIL AWARD WINNER !!!


READ CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AS STATED
WE WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANY REQUESTS IF MISTAKES ARE MADE.
CO-ORDINATOR INTERNATIONAL ONLINE PROMOTIONS
THE NETHERLANDS STAATSLOTERIJ
Paleisstraat 25
Den Haag,2514 JA
The Netherlands
www.staatsloterij.nl
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
RE: E-MAIL AWARD WINNER !!!
REFERENCE N0 :IPL/4249859609/WP1.
BATCH N0: AT-040SB06-03
We are pleased to inform you of release of the results for THE NEDERLANDS ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on the 22nd of October 2006.
You were entered as dependent clients with Reference Serial Number and batch number as stated above.
Your email address attached to the ticket number: 00067746533 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category, in four parts.
You have been approved for a payment of EURO FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO(Euro 500,000) in cash.
This is from a total cash prize of Twelve million, Five Hundred Thousand Euro shared among the sixteen international winners in first categories.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Fifty thousand names of email users around the world, as part of our international promotion program.
Due to mix up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you.
This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators.
Residents of the Netherlands are to come with their winning information to our address as stated above.
Non-residents are to contact our accredited agent who will represent their interest through the process of the payment of the prize money.
Name: Mr Andre Ooijer
AMEV Praktijk Voorzening
Tel: (0031) 616 004 351
E-mail:amevpvorzening@mynet.com
Remember to quote your winning information,that is your reference number and do note that all winning must be claimed not later than 17th of November, 2006.

Congratulations once again.
Yours Sincerely,
Ms Simone Van Kies
Netherlands Staat Loterij

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam