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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:
  • "luckystar e-games lotto bv"
• 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 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.
  • claimsoffice_vandirt@yahoo.gr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES" <egamesinfo@uku.co.uk>
Reply-To: claimsoffice_vandirt@yahoo.gr
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:32:08 +0100 (MET)
Subject: LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES PROMO (CONGRATULATION!!!)


DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES LOTTO BV DE Netherlands
of your email lottery winning for 2006 LUCKYSTAR LOTTO-Wheel E-game held on 1th december 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number, which was selected
among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.NL132478
and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different
email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game.

Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses which were submitted by our partner
international email provider companies.

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

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer
with your winning informationprovided above before 14 working days.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr.Van Dirk
PALEISSTRAAT 5,
2514 JA DEN HAAG ,
NETHERLANDS
Email:claimsoffice_vandirt@yahoo.gr
Tel: +0031-644-911-685
Fax: 0031-847-520-740 or +31-847-520-740

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning,
we hope you will partake in our forth coming DE LUCKYSTARE-GAMES.

Yours truly,
Mrs.Mavis Cook
(Lottery Coordinator)
NB: all response should be mail to:claimsoffice_vandirt@yahoo.gr

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