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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "inter continental alliance finance & securities"
• 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.
  • +31649216997 (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.
  • intctalliancefs@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Isidore PEREZ" <isidore.perez@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:11:15 +0100
Subject: CONTACT THE PAYMENT AUTHORITY.


Thanks for your message (copy following )
You can send a check to me
at my personal address
Isidore PEREZ
6 place Camille Guérin
91000 EVRY
France

Isidore PEREZ



CONTACT THE PAYMENT AUTHORITY.

WINX LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/

PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

1785WF,GOIFEESTRAAT,AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS.

We are pleased to congratulate you,

and announce to you,the results of the First Category draw of THE WINX LOTT
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 held on the 29th day of November 2006. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 e-mails
addresses ofindividuals 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 46998126739, with prize number 472-9768NL, which
consequently won in the First Category. You have been awarded a lump sum
pay-out of €1,000,000(One Million Euros)which is the winning payout for
Category "A" winners.This is from a total cash prize of €10,000,000.00 (Ten
Million Euros) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this
category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is

currently now deposited with the paying Bank.

In your best interest to

avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the
entire details of your award strictly from public notice till the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to
you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/non-participants of this program. Please
contact our paying bank (Inter Continental Alliance Finance &
Securities)immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For

easy reference and identification, do remember to quote these numbers in
your correspondence with the payment authority.

To claim your

funds, please contact the payment authority.

*************************************************

Contact person:

Mr.

Mike Anderson,

(International Remittance Department).

Email:

intctalliancefs@aim.com

Tel: +31-649-216-997

Fax: +31-205-248 770.

*************************************************

N.B: All claims are

nullified after 20 working days from today.

Congratulations once again

from all members of Winx Lotto International.

Thank you for being

part of our promotional program.

Yours in service,

Mrs. Doris Phillips

(Lottery Coordinator).

Anti-fraud resources:

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