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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")
  • "claims 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!
• 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.
  • +31643678913 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Hector Lopez <claimsagent2010-Lopez@web.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:03:46 +0200
Subject: {Disarmed} WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!




WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS
FREELOTTO AFFILIATED OFFICE IN NETHERLANDS.IMDLOTTO.
E-SECURITY

Name: Mr. Hector Lopez.

Email: claimsagent@imdlotto.com [mailto:claimsagent@imdlotto.com]

Telephone +31643678913

www.freelotto.com [http://www.freelotto.com/]



We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 27th of March. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of USD$ 2,000, 000, 00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS) only. Your email address emerged along side 9 others as a category to the winners in this year's Annual Lottery Program which will be holding once every year till the 2010 finals in South Africa.

The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota, and Toshiba, Dell computers, Mackintosh FIFA and mostly by the South African and Netherlands Government.
The world cup free lottery draw is held once a year and is so organized to encourage the use of internet and computers and also to advertise the South Africa 2010 World Cup world wide.

We are proud to say that over US $ 20 Million are won annually in more than 150 countries world wide.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from Over 100,000 unions, associations and co-operate bodies that are listed online.
The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order, please contact your fiduciary agent immediately with the following winning details: Reference Serial Number: TFR/9900034943JPT /, Batch number FR/45-300-06. , Ticket number: FR 54-20-17-52-34-30

Via the email below:
E-SECURITY
Name: Mr. Hector Lopez.
Email: claimsagent@imdlotto.com [mailto:claimsagent@imdlotto.com]
Telephone +31643678913
www.freelotto.com [http://www.freelotto.com/]
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The free lotto internet drew is held every year until the start of the world cup.
We are proud to say that over 400 millions contester annually in more than 118 countries Worldwide.

Warning! Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using Free Lotto and imdlotto addresses, but are not from The Free Lotto so take note of the above claims agent email address when you are replying your mail or sending out information’s.
Once again congratulations...

E-SECURITY
Name: Mr. Hector Lopez.
Email: claimsagent@imdlotto.com [mailto:claimsagent@imdlotto.com]
Telephone +31643678913








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