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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.
  • +31643055368 (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.
  • hsngroupn@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cathyopen@terra.es" <cathyopen@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:45:34 +0100 (MET)
Subject: ST PATRICK'S DAY 2007 MARCH 17




ST PATRICK'S DAY 2007 MARCH 17

CARRIED OUT BY HSN AND CVBNL
Liseth Van Edith (Mrs.)
Director-of operation Mr. William S Mccong (Dr.)
Tel +31-643-055-368 Fax: +31-847-156-257
contact email:hsngroupn@aim.com


DEAR Sir / Madam.

We are pleased to inform you of our recent concluded CVB INTERNATIONAL ONLINE PROGRAM PRIZE AWARD held 27th February to mark St Patrick's DAY 2007.You were entered as independent client with serial number 774-533-734, Ref Number:317/8864/cvsn Batch Number:cvbL/511/27/22 You are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 350,000.00(THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO) in cash credited to security file number 609-385-cvn.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerize email selection system (CVB) from a database of over 250,000 independent email addresses drawn from all the continents. PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING

Liseth Van Edith (Mrs.)
Director-of operation Mr. William S Mccong (Dr.)
Tel +31-643-055-368 Fax: +31-847-156-257
contact email:hsngroupn@aim.com

,Remenber all winning must be claim not later than 17th March 2007,to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your Reference number, Batch number and Serial number and security file number.
The name of our lottery organization is Cvb . It has the following legal status.  Registered under Navada netherlands Registration Act 1975  Registered under Foreign lottery payment Regulations Act- Home Ministry Board of Netherlards  Registered under section 12A and 80G for email balloting system

With Regards,
Mrs.Walter galsa
Notification Centre





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