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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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.
  • +31630499877 (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.
  • mrjanklerk@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nadia Van Den Vries <NadiaNMLK@aim.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:31:23 +0100
Subject: [SD-drift]Your Prize


PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to
your notice, the results of the Second
Category draws of THE MICRO/DAYZERS PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that
you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our
promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced on July
17th , 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 500,000,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East,
and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 672096332, with serial number

86543222491 drew the lucky numbers H632-O0932/DF7 and consequently won
in the First Category.You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay
out of 850,000 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros), which is the
winning payout for Category A winners.This is from a total cash prize
of 8,500,000.00 Million Euros shared amongst the first 10 (10) lucky
winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying
Bank.In your best interest to aviod 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 process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted
to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this
program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account
of your choice:
You are advised to contact the agents by email.Failure
to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification,
find below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember
to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.
REF Number: SNV/CZ7259H7627/111
coupon number: 01/8916373/88545
To
file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Mr Jan Klerk
AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.
Tel:+31630499877
email:MrJanklerk@aim.com
***********************************************
All winnings must be
notarized to complete the claim process; winners will be referred to a
Foreign Transfer Manager,to have their winnings notarized.Winners are
to cover the legal charges ,also you have two weeks to
from the date of this publication to claim your prize or forefeit your
winnings.
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you
for being part of our promotions program.
Mrs Nadia Van Den Vries
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam