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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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 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.
  • ecaclaims@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: check mail <staatpicheck@web.de>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:53:12 +0200
Subject: DEAR LUCKY WINNER




STAATSLOTERIJ EMAIL PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD.
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE
(STAATSLOTERIJ ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION)

FROM: THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Staat lottery Paleisstraat 5 2514 JA Den Haag.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the First Category draws of STAAT PROMOTION INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 2nd of April 2007. Participants were selected throug h a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of i ndividuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia,Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529, with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners. This is from the total prize money from 1,500,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our s ecurity protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by p articipants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact your claims department immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent Mr. M. J. Skirl

***********************************************
Mr. M. J. Skirl,

Claim Department, PTI
Address: P.O. Box 2021 3500GA,
Utrecht Netherlands.

Email .: ecaclaims@aim.com [mailto:ecaclaims@aim.com]

***********************************************

You are advised to contact the agents by email.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/07
BATCH NUMBER: 15/051/IPD

Congratula tions once again from all our staff and thank you for being part o f our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.HANA VOSSESTEIN.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
STAATSLOTERIJ NL.

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.Contact your fiduciary agent immediately.

This promotional program takes place every year. This year promotion was promoted and sponsored by THE MANAGEMENT OF THE STAATSLOTERIJ COMPANY B.V.
We hope with part of your winning you will take part on our next year 2 million international promotion.





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