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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")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • meridiantfc@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EUROMILLONES" <euromillonesdrawinfo@europe.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:15:09 +0000
Subject:

EUROMILLONES LOTTERY
Don Pedro de Luna 67
50 - 010 VALENCIA
SPAIN

Ref: EUM/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

www.losmillones.com/loto/euromillones/analisis.html

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to notify you the draw (#1078) of the EUROMILLONES
LOTTERY,Online Sweepstakes
International Lottery Program held on 4th December, 2006.Participants were
selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 indevidual
names/company drawn
from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of
Africa, and North & South
America as part of our international promotions programme.

The result of our computer draw (#1078) selected your name and email
address attached to e-ticket
number: 56475612545 187 with Serial number 5368/03 drew the lucky numbers:
07-15-19-23-37-48(Bonus Ball 45) which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 1st category i.e. Match 6. You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of €950.000
euro (Nine hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/07.

Your prize award has been insured with your email and is ready for
claims.To begin your claims, you are
advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent
for Overseas Lottery Winners
for the processing of your winning and remittance of your money to your
designated bank account after all statutory
obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your €950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Euros) will be release to you
by our fiduciary agent in Netherlands. Please be informed that claims not
processed within the
stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our payment Bank (MERIDIAN TRUST FINANCE CORP, Rotterdam Netherlands) will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact
them. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with the particulars
presented below sending the batch
and reference numbers and these informations below for quick verifications
and release of funds
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday through Friday.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of
proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to
maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this
program. Any lottery double claim detected by our monitoring committee will
lead to the EUROMILLONES
lottery cacelling the winnings. making a loss for both the real winner, and
the fake (intended) claimer.

Below you will find a Documentation Form, requesting your required
particulars.

EUROMILLONES LOTTERY DOCUMENTATION FORM

FULL NAMES:__________________________________
ADDRESS: _________________________________________________
CITY:_________________________
STATE:__________________________________ ZIP: _____________________
PHONE:__________________________________
COUNTRY________________________________
SEX:_______________
AGE:__________________
MARITAL STATUS:_________________
OCCUPATION:________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
NATIONALITY_________________________

You are required to fill and submit the above particulars to our Overseas
Claims/Netherlands Payment
Unit with the below email address.
***************************************************************************
********
Mr.Jon Lemann
Foreign Service Manager,
MERIDIAN TRUST FINANCE CORP.
Tel:0031-615-401-054
Fax:0031-847-169-176
EMAIL: meridiantfc@aim.com
***************************************************************************
************

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, I remain.


Maria Jose (Mrs).
Online coordinator for EUROMILLIONS
Sweepstakes International Program.
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