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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.
• 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.
  • +31610474520 (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.
  • csoftwarepros@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Tracy Moore" <lottinc61@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: csoftwarepros@aim.com
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:57:24 +0100
Subject: ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!

ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Computer Ballot Jackpot 'A' Draw Result.
FROM: De LOTTO.NL
PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

REF No: QNL/4A51/8C60/06
BATCH No: XA3/312-59
TICKET No: 334/ 660078
SERIAL No: 05908
LUCKY No: 9-43-97

WINNING EMAIL NOTIFICATION [FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY].

Dear Lucky Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Free
Email Computer Ballot Jackpot 'A' draw 1st Category of LOTTO.NL.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners
International programs drawn today, 15/02/2007. Your E-mail address attached
to Ticket number 334/ 660078 with Serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers
9-43-97, which consequently won in the 1st category; you have therefore been
approved for a lump sum payout of EUR2, 500, 000. 00 Euros. (TWO MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS). CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by LOTTO.NL (Biggest lottery
Organization in the Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over
the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we intend
to conduct several times a year.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent

CONTACT:
**********************************************
Mr. Andrew Thompson
Email: csoftwarepros@aim.com
Tel. No: +31-61-047-4520
Fax. No: +31-84-722-2680

**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Company (if any):
Winning reference and Batch numbers:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your
reference information in all correspondence. Members of the affiliate
agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Furthermore, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of this mail
and note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible
should there be any complications in this transaction due to laxity on your
part. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program. Should there be any change of address
do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program. Pls Do not reply to the email address from
where you received the information, thank you.

Yours truly,

MS Caroline Van Bosch
Promotion Manager.
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!

************THIS IS NOT SPAM***********

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