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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:

• 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.
  • +447031840978 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: kateveldhuizen@aol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:40:34 +0200
Subject: From Kate Veldhuizen,,

!!!PRIZE AWARD!!!
!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON STAATS EROU LOTERIJ 2007 GLOBAL EMAIL PROMOTION.
STAATS EROU LOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL PROMO.
Addres:32 Palmstraat 1015 AE,Amsterdam.
From:The Promotion Director.
International Promotions Dept.
Email:eroulottery@tiscali.nl
TELEFAX:31 847 521779


Attn: Winner,
In view of the yearly sweepstake of the above named organization,we therefore bring to your notice that
Staats erou loterij International B.V has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category.It is my pleasure to inform you that your e-mail address attached to the above Ref No, LSLUK/2031/8161/07,serial number 5772-54, lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44, batch number 14/011/IPD came up in the first dip.

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- LSLUK/2031/8161/07
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
ticket number 50941465206-529.
This invariably means that you have emerged as the prize recipient in the first category with an allocated sum of One Million Dollar (1,000.000.00).Be informed that No tickets were sold while all participants were selected from a randon computing ballot system.
This email sweepstake is sponsored by a group of corporate organizations and governmental parastatals drawn from major cities in Europe.
To file for your claim and other enquiries,contact the designated fiducial consultant/claim dept officer:

Mr. Don Lynn.
Claim Department office,
email:donlynn@officeemail.net
Tel:+447031840978

Please note all winning must be claimed within 3 weeks from the date of this notice.
Congratulations once more
Faithfully yours'
Kate Veldhuizen (Co-ordinator)
Staatsloterij International B.V
Netherlands.

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.
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This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify or send it back to:eroulottery@tiscali.nl, any disclosure, coping, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.


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This email was sent by The cordinator, staatsloterij b.v,32 palmstraat,1015 Ae , using Express Email Marketing.



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