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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:
  • "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.
  • +31643055368 (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.
  • dpagencynl@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: diana@dianakok1.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:55:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS


PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS
REF No: EUNL-L/200-43937
BATCH No: 2007MKD-04
BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are please to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of EURO MILLION LOTERY international programs. Held on the 21th of June 2007.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive
list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies
Picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three lucky winners in the category (A) with the following winning information:
TICKET No: 40501465463-7530
SERIAL No: E/NL-00149
LUCKY No: 747-23-568-37-30-84
You are therefore approved to receive a cash prize
of (500,000.00)Euro Five hundred thousand euro Your prize award has Been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you Upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
Validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of
your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent with the information below:
DPA FINANCIAL SERVICE BV
MR LUTTON VAN BUTMAN.
( OPERATIONAL DIRECTOR)
Email: dpagencynl@netscape.net
Tel: +31-643-055-368 .
Fax: +31-847-167-290.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your winning fund is remitted to you This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. This is important as a case of double claim.
Congratulation from members and staff of euro million lottery international
Sincerely,
Mrs Diana kok.
Programming
coodinator @ service Iwon list of prize

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