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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:

• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Lotto.nl" <vanbosch@iwon.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:04:54 -0500 (EST)
Subject: END OF YEAR EMAIL BONANZA!










END OF YEAR EMAIL BONANZA!APPROVED SUM BY LOTTO.NL !!!LOTTO.NLPRIZE AWARD DEPT. REF No: TAI/271-431/60 BATCH No: SEY/156/TV TICKET No:20511465463-7644 SERIAL No: 472-9768-98 LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99WINNING EMAIL NOTIFICATION.Dear Lucky Winner,We bring to your notice the results of the Free Email Computer Ballot Jackpot 'A' draw 1st Category of LOTTO.NL held today.CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL HAVE WONThis lottery is a promotional program by LOTTO.NL (Biggest lottery Organization in the Belgium/Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence. All participants were selected through a computer ballot systemdrawn from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we intend to conduct several times a year.Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 20511465463-7644 with Serial number 472-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99,which consequently won in the 1st
category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of Eur.1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Euros). This is from a total cash prize of Eur.9,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Six International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated mode of payment within 48 hours of completion of the authentication. Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and notarized and your certificate of award obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our Organization &amp; the Netherlands Gaming Control Board. This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse ofthis program by some participants/non
participants. All winnings must be claimed not later than 17th November 2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of 21 is automatically disqualified. To file for your claim, please contact our paying out bank/your processing agentCONTACT: CAPITOL FINANCIER &amp; INSURER BANK. (Transfer Manager.) Mr. Smit Brockworst. Reply Email: cfibnl@cosmo.comAlternative Email: cfibnl@iwon.comNOTE: A copy of of this message has been sent to the accounting dept./paying out bank(CAPITOL). All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete to effect transfer of your winning prize,this certificate can only be obtained through legal representation in the bank,so winners will be referred to an independent lawyer acting as a referee to assist in this process. Winners are responsible for their legal/cost of transfer charges.In order to avoid unnecessary delays
and complications, provide the following when replying:Name: Nationality: Country of Residence: Occupation: Tel number: Ref no: Batch no:Kindly remember to quote your reference number number in all correspondence.Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.Yours truly, Mrs.Yvonne.Van Bosch. (Co-ordinator)NOTICE: You have received this message from Lotto.nl prize dept. at your winning e-mail address because you have emerged a winner.If you are not the intended recipient, you must not,directly or indirectly,use, disclose,distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.************DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE**********

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