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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
• 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.
  • +31641912354 (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.
  • dzrsned2007claim@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: banda alexandru <blanda_alexandru@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 05:52:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: help me


Dear tanti jannie.
Today,I recieved an curious e-mail from Holland.I think that is a joke,but I hope that you know what is this e-mail about.I send my e-mail to funny.Kiss you and have a good day!!


THE NETHERLANDS STAATSLOTERIJ:
Dayzers Nederland:
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA - Den Haag;
The Netherlands:
www.dayzers.nl

Dear beneficiary,

Following the official publication of results of the e-mail electronic
online Sweepstakes organized by The Netherlands Staatsloterij
Corporation held on Thursday, the 31st of May, 2007 in The Hague - Holland,
wherein your electronic e-mail address emerged as one of the fifty online
winning emails in the 1st category, out of a total of 500,000 e-mail
addresses that were entered for the E-mail Lottery Ballot and has
therefore attracted a cash award of One Million Euro only. This is from a total
cash prize of Fifty Million Euro only, shared amongst the fifty winners
in this category. Your electronic e-mail address attached to our
Lottery payment order, has the following details: (I) Ticket Number:
DZRS/STLOTT/837-3845/2007: (ii) Lucky Numbers: 07, 25, 31, 49, 54, 66, 72:
(iii) Batch Number: 11/621/2PDH /DZRS/NL/07: (iv) File Reference Number:
DZRS/82283922/2007:. No tickets were sold.
We write to officially notify you of this award and advise you to
contact our Claims Department immediately on receipt of this message for
more information concerning your identity verification, processing and
eventual payment of the above prize to you.

For your identity verification, please contact our Claims Department:
Tel; +31 64 191 2354 ; e-mail: dzrsned2007claim@aim.com; Contact Person
: Dr. Jerome Coles - while quoting: (i). Your full name(s) and
Nationality; (ii). Batch Number and (iii). Reference Number:

The payment authority of your prize - One Million Euro only - already
paid and insured in your name with our Paying bank will be issued to
effect immediate/swift transfer in the mode you will prefer and nominate,
upon satisfactory report on your identity verification and validation
recommendation by our Claims Department. E-mail addresses registered
with false names are not eligible to claiming this prize.
The Staatsloterij Award is sponsored by a consortium of software
promotion companies i.e. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and
Microsoft Corporation to encourage the use of the internet and promote
computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euro
are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide, as a result of our
promotional programmes.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 30th of June, 2007. After
this date, all unclaimed funds will be withdrawn and remember to quote
your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences.


Once again on behalf of all our staff, Congratulations.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Brenda van Wolfgang
Lottery Coordinator
Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program.



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