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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.
  • +31614990140 (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.
  • bmwuniorcb@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Engr. Peter M. Reed" <bmwlotto@bmw.com>
Reply-To: bmwuniorcb@aim.com
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:39:58 +0100
Subject: BMW AUTOMOBILE PRIZE AWARD!!!

PRIZE AWARD!!! THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION DEPARTMENT 22 Isabella RichardStraat, 3271, PE , Den Haag The Netherlands. Reference Number: BMW:2551256003/23 !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!. The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years' BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held in December, 2006, in Netherlands. This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M Sport Saloon car and a prize of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand (550,000) Euros. The car comes with a special BMW Insurance Cover for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in 2007. It also comes with a one year warranty and FREE repairs at any BMW AUTOMOBILE depot or service station worldwide.. As a winner you are responsible for the legal charges for the no!
tarization. DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE. YEAR: 2006, MODEL: 550i M Sport Saloon The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: 5647600545188 and serial number: BMWP/556543450906 was randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners. For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager, Mr.Eddy Van Bakker of our claims department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you assistance and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes. <<http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/home.law>> Claims Manager: Mr. Eddy Van Bakker. BMW Claims Department EM!
AIL: bmwuniorcb@aim.com </ym/Compose?To=bmwuniorcb@a
im.com&YY=57126&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> PHONE NUMBER: +31 6-1499-0140 FAX NUMBER: +31 847-570-900 VERIFICATION FORM: 1.) FULL NAME: 2.) AGE: 3.) SEX: 4.) ADDRESS: 5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 6.) STATE/PROVINCE: 7.) COUNTRY: 8.) PHONE: 9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION: 10.) COMPANY: 11.) EMAIL ADDRESS: 12.) TICKET NUMBER: 13.) SERIAL NUMBER: Congratulations once more, and keep trusting BMW Automobile for top quality automobiles. Engr. Peter M. Reed DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS, INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS, BMW AUTOMOBILE. DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS . THE BMW INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION COPYRIGHT ©2007. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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