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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims director" (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!
• 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.
  • +447011140612 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448700685113 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • info.gray@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "sachsen boards" <shhchb@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:46:24 +0000
Subject: You have emerged a million Euro winner-contact immediately

SACHSEN LOTTERY BOARD
Central Office
Management and Central Services: 
Sachsen Strauss 8814, Rotterdam,
Amsterdam,The Netherlands.

Ref No:SL/06-GmbH/4009
Batch:SL/06- GmbH/3434

SUBJECT:CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN OF ONE MILLION EURO.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws of SACHSEN LOTTERY GmbH &Co Program.SACHSEN LOTTERY GmbH Program was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random ballot search from the internet as part of our international release program 'NO TICKET WERE SOLD'.After this automated ballot,your e-mail address attached to serial number 31-2549 drew the lucky numbers 9-11-68-21-33-33 which consequently qualified you as one of selected fifty (50)winners in this 'A' category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 1,000,000.000 (ONE MILLION EURO) in cash credited to
file SL/06-GmbH/4009. This is from a total cash of 50 Million Euro(Fifty Million Euro) shared amongst the
shortlisted Fifty(50) lucky winners in this 'A' category.
 
ELIGIBILITY:

This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is open to all persons
from age 18 years and above with a valid e-mail address.

PROCEDURES:
 
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited payment centre agents for the processing of Win application,hence  
to begin your claim,you are therefore advised as a matter of urgency,to contact our European booklet representative office in United Kingdom using below contact information.It is imperative You write your reference and batch number to below European booklet representative office via below email address(info.gray@yahoo.de)for their clearification purposes as your prize fund of One Million Euro release will be handled by their office in line with the gaming board office regulation observation.
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Claims Director: MR.GRAY ARMSTRONG
(European booklet representative cHIEF officer)
Information and Payment Bureau
SACHSEN LOTTERY GmbH.
Contact E-mail address:info.gray@yahoo.de

Phone: +44 701 114 0612
       +44 703 184 8799
Fax:   +44-870-068-5113
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MR.GRAY ARMSTRONG'S office will assist you in the processing and remittance of your funds.
Note that all announced PRIZE RELEASE must be claimed not later than One month.After this date all funds
will be returned to the  TREASURY as unclaimed.

NOTE BELOW:
Your win is is under supervision of the Games and Lotto payout subcommitee with a hardcover insurance.Due to the mix up of some reference and batch numbers,we advise that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to You,as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by the general public.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Julia Flo
Release Manager.
Sachsen-GmbH BOARD.

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