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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.
  • +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.
  • claimsandpaydept@aim.com

Fraud email example:

From: "tamara_brown@terra.es" <tamara_brown@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:27:01 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Ref Number: MMCAN/652311872/07



Ref Number: MMCAN/652311872/07
Batch Number: 074/06/369MM

GOOD DAY TO YOU!!!

We wish to inform you of the yearly sweepstakes
program LOTTO PRO 2007 that your e-mail address has won an award sum of a total cash prize of 1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY)shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
Do contact the Award department for the processing of your claims.

Mr.Patrick Hans.
Lotto Pro Claims Manager
Address:waterlooplaan,
5142 AC DEN HAAG,
NETHERLANDS
To begin your claims, kindly call your agent or send am email with your Ref/batch information:

***********************************************
Email: claimsandpaydept@aim.com
Tel : +31-616-719-218.
***********************************************

Yours faithfully,
Tamara Brown (Mrs.).
PRO Games/Lottery Coordinator





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