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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")
• 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.
  • +34697413210 (Spain, 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.
  • sistelpromocion@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: euro mill <euro-post@web.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:37:53 +0100
Subject: FROM THE HEAD-QUARTERS




FROM THE HEAD-QUARTERS
EUROMILLIONES LOTERIA
CALLE GRAN VIA 34-1B
28009-Madrid-Spain.
TEL:0034 696 3 30 696

Dear Email Ownner,

We are pleased to announce to you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the euromilliones Lottery national Email draw on the 20th of december 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category A winner in the euromilliones Lottery Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of US$100,000,00 (One Million Dollars Only).The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: Batch Nº: WNTO/7416/VA/ES, Lucky Nº: 07-13-31-11-69-54, Ref Nº: EMLES/2006/M and Serial Nº: 11546627MA
The spanish euromilliones internet Lottery Program draw is held once every end of year.To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate process and transfer of your winning fund to you.

MR.ISREAL SANTOS
SISTEL SECURITIES S.L
CALLE DELICIAS 34
28059-Madrid-Spain
Tel Nº : +34 697 4 13 210
E-mail: sistelpromocion@aim.com [mailto:sistelpromocion@aim.com]

Please be aware that the paying bank (BANCO BBVA) will effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.
Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 21 days of receiving this notification. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified, once again congratulations!!!

Sincerely,

Mrs Lucia Fernandes
Lottery Co-Ordinator
Euromilliones España





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