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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.
  • +31616128268 (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.
  • intercontinalfin@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: nl@nllot.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:46:16 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PRICE


LOTTO.NL,
2391 Beds 152 Koningin Julianaplein 21,
Den Haag, the Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Susan Console
(Lottery Coordinator)
Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
Lotto NL Winners International programs held on the
2nd of January, 2007. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket No: 00903228100 with prize No 778009/UK drew
€1,000,000.00 which was first in the 2nd class of the
draws. You are to receive €1,000,000.00 (One Million
Euros).
Be informed because of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask
that you keep your winning information confidential
until your fund (€1,000,000.00) has been fully
remitted to you by our accredited pay-point bank. This
measure must be adhere to avoid loss of your cash
prize - winners of our cash prizes are advised to
adhere to these instructions to forestall the abuse of
this program by other participants. It's important to
note that this draws were conducted formally, and
winners are selected through an internet ballot system
from 60,000 individual and companies e-mail addresses
- the draws are conducted around the world through our
internet based ballot system. The promotion is
sponsored and promoted by Lotto NL.
We congratulate you once again. We hope you will use
part of it in our next draws; the jackpot winning is
€85million. Remember, all winning must be claimed not
later than 20 days. After this date all unclaimed cash
prize will be forfeited and included in the next
sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications remember to quote your
winning numbers in all correspondence with us.
Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto
NL. Thank you for being part of our promotional
program.
For immediate release of your cash prize to you,
please kindly contact our Paying Bank
(Inter Continental Alliance Finance & Securities Den
Haag.) with the below contact details:
Inter Continental Alliance Finance & Securities Den
Haag
*************************************************
International Remittance Department
International Remittance Officer: Mr. James Milton
E-mail: intercontinalfin@aim.com
Tel: 0031-616-128-268

Kindly send the following information to the paying
bank:
(i) Your names
(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Contact Address
(iv) Your winning numbers
(v) Quote amount won.
*************************************************
N.B: All claimed funds are nullified after 20 working
days from today.
Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto
NL. Thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Susan Console
(Lottery Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

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