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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "luckystar e-games lotto bv"
• 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.
  • +31616843680 (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.
  • info_claims_department02@yahoo.gr

Fraud email example:

From: DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES <suzi88@atmail.nl>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:08:01 +0200
Subject: DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES (PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION )


DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the DE LUCKYSTAR
E-GAMES LOTTO BV DE Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2007
LUCKYSTAR LOTTO-Wheel E-game held on 28th February 2007.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros Only)
You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by
contacting the Lottery Claims
Processing Officer with your winning information provided above before
14 working days.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr. Van Dirk
Email:info_claims_department02@yahoo.gr
Tel: 0031-616-843-680
Fax: 0031-847-262-754
Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES.
Yours truly,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
(Lottery Coordinator)
NB: all response should be mail to: Per la prossima dichiarazione dei redditi si può scegliere di dare il 5 per mille dei contributi fiscali a
Associazione Davide.it ONLUS
Per far ciò, bisogna apporre la firma nello spazio riservato al "volontariato, organizzazioni non lucrative di utilità sociale, associazioni...", indicando anche il codice fiscale di Davide.it, che è il seguente:
97621130018
potrà essere utilizzato il modello integrativo CUD 2007 (consegnato dal datore di lavoro), oppure il modello 730-1bis redditi 2006 oppure ancora il modello unico Persone fisiche 2007.

www.davide.it dalla parte dei bambini!
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