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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!

Fraud email example:

From: kate veldhuizen <kate@kveldhuizen70.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:38:08 +0100 (CET)
Subject: !!! GOOD NEWS!!! CONTACT CLAIMS DEPT!!!


!!! GOOD NEWS!!! CONTACT CLAIMS DEPT!!!
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON $1, 000, 000. 00 USD !!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FROM: THE PROMOTION DIRECTOR,INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS DEPT.
Addres: 32 Palmstraat 1015 Ae, Amsterdam The Netherlands.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY"A" WINNER-

Our Contact E-mail: staatclaims04@aol.com


Attn: Winner,

In view of the yearly sweepstake of the above named organization,we therefore bring to your notice that Staatsloterij
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:

Dr. Daan Cobus
Claim Department office,
Staatsloterij International B.V

Contact Email: staatclaims04@aol.com Tel: + 31- 616 937 878.

Please note all winning must be claimed within 3 weeks from the date of this notice.
Congratulations once more

Faithfully yours'

Mrs Kate Veldhuizen (Co-ordinator)
Staatsloterij International B.V
Netherlands.

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.
========================================================================================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:staatclaims04@aol.com , any disclosure, coping, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.
*Copy right 2007 Staatsloterij NL*

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