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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:
  • "claims director" (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.
  • +31616719218 (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.
  • claimspro_2007@mail2stephanie.com
  • lotto_pro-2007@mail.nu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "ms_affiliate_program@mail.com" <ms_affiliate_program@mail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:27:15 +0300
Subject: Email Award Notice

Lotto Pro 2007 ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS!!!



Lotto Pro 2007 windows lottery
Lotto Winners of 1,500,000.00 Euros
Ref. Number: NL/BC7765468/WW14
Coupon Number: NM/897171/WOP

We are pleased to inform you of today's announcement of winners of the
MS Windows Lotto Pro 2007 Affiliate Program held on Tuesday the 23th of
January 2007.
Your Company or your personal e-mail address is attached to winning number
20-01-2007-02MSW, with serial number S/N-02077 drew the lucky numbers
887-13-865-37-10-83, and consequently won in the first international lottery
category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of One Million Five
Hundred Thousand EUROS (1,500,000.00) in cash credited to file REF NO:
NL/BC7765468/WW14 and Coupon NO.NM/897171/WOP

This is from total prize money of 10,687,000 EUROS, shared among the twenty
international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through our Microsoft Windows computer
ballot system
drawn form 21,000 names, 3,000 names from each continent, as part of
International Microsoft Windows "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, which is
conducted once in every
four years for our prominent MS Windows users all over the world, and for
the
continues use of E-mail.

Your fund has been deposited in an escrow account with our affiliate Bank
here in THE NETHERLANDS, and insured with your REF NO: NL/BC7765468/WW14
and your E-mail address.

You are to keep your ref. number and coupon number from the public, until
you have been processed and your money remitted to your personal account.
We hope with your prize, you will be happy to promote the use of E-mail and
the
use of MS WORD.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department
by email or you can call the claims department for processing and
remittance of your prize money.
Your assigned claims Director contact is:

Mrs. Stephanie Logan
Claims processing officer
Lotto Pro 2007
Branch Den Haag
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL: +31-616-719-218
FAX: +31-847-262-754
Email:ClaimsPro_2007@mail2stephanie.com

She is to help you in claiming your due prize. Remember, all prize money
must be claimed not later than 3 months after the draw. All funds not
claimed on or before Monday the 23rd of April 2007 will be penalized
accordingly and all funds not claimed within a year will expire and
eventually scraped and taken along in new draws.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and coupon numbers in all your
correspondences
with your assigned claims officer. All response should be first sent to our
claims department
to verify your winning prize.


Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Tiffany Flynn
Lotto Pro 2007 Affiliate Program
The Netherlands
Email: Lotto_Pro-2007@mail.nu

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