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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Fluxx Award" <WEBDNXIEV401@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:49:42 -0800
Subject: NOTICE FROM THE GAMING COMPANY(THE FLUXX).



The draw of the Fluxx online Sweepstakes
International Program held on 31st December 2006, won
you the Lottery in this Bonus. The amount you won is
yet to be claimed and you are getting the final
notification as stated in this mail.

Your e-mail address attached to Serial number 06/49 6
17 42 25 subsequently won you the lottery in the EU
category.Winners for this online draw will be
continually released weekly till the first half of
2007.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of €1,000.000.00(One Million Euro) in cash credited
to file Gamesserver/06/UK.


FLUXX is Germany's leading specialist in the
lucrative gaming market. Whether as a service
provider for lottery companies and racecourses, as an
expertise partner for major Internet players such as
AOL, Lycos and freenet or as a supplier of its own
lottery and betting platforms such as JAXX and
Telewette, FLUXX is participating in the multi-
billion gaming market in many different ways.

The necessary rights and licences and the technical
and market-relevant expertise place FLUXX in a
position to be able to arrange any form of gaming and
gambling, along a variety of sales channels, between
the consumer and the state licence holders. In
addition to self-marketed services, FLUXX makes its
products and services available to other companies
and organisations with extensive customer contacts.
The shares of FLUXX AG have been traded on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange since September 1999.

The operative functions of the subsidiaries JAXX,
ANYBET and DSM are based in Hamburg-Ottensen. The
management holding company with the Management Board
and the employees of the Legal, Personnel, Finance
and Business Development Departments have their base
in Altenholz, near Kiel.



Our European agents will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact them.I are aware a lot of hoax
mails are going out after 7days of this notice,
please count your winnings as forfeited if you have
not contacted the agent and claimed your
winnings.Your file was accredited to to the United
Kingdom Game Server,therefore, your payout center
will be in the London, United Kingdom.

To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary
agent with the information below:

FLUXX AGENT
Name: Mr.Ostermann Perkins
Email: OstermannPerkins@claimsoffice.games-
server.co.uk

Kindly contact him with a request to claim your
winnings and with the information below:

( 1 ) YOUR FULL NAMES: .................
( 2 ) YOUR SERIAL NUMBERS:.............
( 3 ) YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS: .............
( 4 ) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:............
( 5 ) YOUR AGE:.........................
( 6 ) NATIONALITY: .....................
( 7 ) RELIGION: ........................
( 8 ) OCCUPATION: ......................


MODE OF COLLECTING YOUR WINNINGS(Kindly
Indicate).

(1) BANK TO BANK TRANSFER.
(2) COURIER SYSTEM.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAILSEND ALL YOUR
CORRESPONDENCE TO OstermannPerkins@claimsoffice.games-
server.co.uk

Congratulations from staffs and management of the
Fluxx.

Goetz Graf von Hardenberg
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
FLUXX(THE GAMING COMPANY)

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