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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 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.
  • +31616719218 (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.
  • claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "luckystarlotterybv@mail.nu " <luckystarlotterybv@mail.nu>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:47:15 +0100
Subject: Claim notification !

LUCKYSTAR LOTTERY BV.

Dear Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING !

This email confirms that you have been notified by LUCKYSTAR Lottery BV The
Netherlands of your email lottery winning the LUCKYSTAR LOTTO-Wheel was held
on 27th of November 2006.

We congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number, which was
selected among the 45 lucky prize winners. Your email ID identified with
Coupon No.NL132478 was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS)
with entries from the 50,000 various email addresses enrolled for the
Lotto-Wheel.
Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses which
were submitted to us by our partner an international email provider company.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Lottery Group: International Prize Group
Prize Amount: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro Only)

You are therefore required to file your claim of your winning prize by
contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer of Luckystar Lottery BV.
with your winning information provided in this mail.

NOTE: all the winning prizes must be claimed by the beneficiary before 14
working days which is before monday the 18th of December 2006 for all
November winning prizes.

Mrs.Patricia Wijnen

Claims processing officer
Luckystar Lottery BV.
PALEISSTRAAT 5
2514 JA DEN HAAG
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL: +31-616-719-218
FAX: +31-847-262-754
Email:claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu

Congratulations once again from our staff on your winning prize ,we hope
you will partake in our forth coming LUCKYSTAR Lottery.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
president
Luckystar Lottery BV.
The Netherlands

NB: all response should be mailed to claimsofficerluckystar@mail.nu , Head
Claims processing Officer Patricia Wijnen.

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• What can you do when you receive 419 spam