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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "please endeavor to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +31626387538 (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.
  • abbytrustsecom@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: <eurointerlottery@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:41:46 -0200
Subject: Pin number : 1007685437

EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
WINNERS/PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION.
AVENUE DE TERVUEREN 35/37 B-1040 BRUXELLES.
(Customer Services)

Dear Internet User,
The draw of the EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. online Sweepstakes
International Program held on 6th October 2006, won you
the Lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus. The amount you luckily won is yet to be
claimed and you are getting the FINAL notification as regards this Email.

NOTE: We had to wait for all Winners who purchased the Lottery Ticket(s) to
claim their prizes before notifying you who won *Online* even without your
knowledge. This is the reason we have not notified you of your winnings
before now.Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning
numbers:
4, 10, 23, 36, 37, and 49, by our computer draw system, which subsequently
won you the lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery®).

Because your email was attached to our winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED
as one of the draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim:
A total sum of 1.5 Millon Euro (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO) in
CASH credited to REF number ; KTU/9023118308/03. And BATCH
Number: 1080.01. and Pin number : 1007685437

Do not think that your winning is a joke, (or Play-Time) . It is real, and
we had more winners in the past with greater prizes than this.
The EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ®. and the EURO MILLIONS®, are the
richest Lottery Agencies in the whole world.

The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category
i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery®) All participants for the Email Lottery
(e-Lottery®)
were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email
Lottery Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This Lottery programme is part of the EUROPEANs Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 (The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).Other sums to be
raised from the EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY would be from Ticket
sales, Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.

Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this endeavor, your email was
selected by our E.L.D.S. (e-Lottery®) randomly.
Your 1.5 millon Euro will be released to you by any of our payment offices
in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
Confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
You in your country.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the
information below:

Name: Daivd Paulson
Email: abbytrustsecom@yahoo.com
TEL: 0031-626-387-538
FAX: 0031-847-597-995

Please endeavor to contact Daivd Paulson via email and you can call
0031-626-387-538 with the required information as soon as possible.
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE EUROPEAN UNION
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ®.
Yours faithfully,
Darrin Clarke (Mrs.)
Online coordinator
For EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program © Copyright 2006
_____________________________________________________________________
-------Do not reply this E-mail; contact our fiduciary agent with the above
email---------

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