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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.
  • +31652161980 (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.
  • eurogconsult@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mlin@euromlin.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:37:02 +0100 (CET)
Subject: ALL FILINGS ARE SUBJECT TO THOROUGH SCRUTINY


This email confirms that you have received from the Euro Millions an official notification of your lottery winning in the FREELOTERY AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (F.A.S.T).
You have won a prize of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros (3,500,000.00) a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the Euro Millions International Organizers.
In accordance with the world lottery ordinance, you are authorized as the official lottery prize winner to immediately file in for your claims upon receipt of this mail.
The FREELOTERY AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET (F.A.S.T) GAME is an online promotional program organized by Euro Millions International. A total of 500,000 email addresses were entered for the FREELOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (F.A.S.T).
All email addresses entered for the game are submitted by our partner international email service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers.
Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic Random Selection System; (ERSS) no ticket was sold. Your email ID was included among the 500,000 email addresses that were entered for category "A" with the following details, Batch No: EUM WU-58KTL.with Ticket No. LN/BB090426: Ref no EUM WU-9KTL: Lucky No: 8 11 14 19 25. Serial No: VAP-6425.
Note that Euro Millions will remit prize payout strictly to winners who officially file in for their prize claims. To begin the claim processing of your prize, you are advised to contact our licensed agent for category "A" with the informations below.
Mrs.Charlaine Groenewoude
Global Consult.
Email:eurogconsult@katamail.com
Tel: 31 652 161 980 (GMT +1 - 09:00 - 17:00 Hours)
All winnings must be claimed not later than 7 days. You are to keep your winning details from the general public as a case of double claims will not be entertained.
Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate bodies are not allowed to participate in this programme.
Thanks for being part of our programme and once again "Congratulation".
Barbara Klein

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam