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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +31642874665 (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.
  • financialtrus@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Doris Holt <doholt2@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:03:23 +0200
Subject: AWARD WON PRIZE NOTIFICATION


AWARD WON PRIZE NOTIFICATION
Ref Number: NL/351/499
Batch Number: NL-263-715
DRAWS FOR CATEGORY "B"
http://www.kraslot.nl/contact/verkooppunten.html

Lucky Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the second Category draws KRASLOTEN LOTTERY which you emerged as a winner under this Second Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were officially released on the 22nd of June, 2007. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from various continents especially from the third nations of the world; Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-mail address, attached to Ticket number 5486623, with a Serial number 47550023 and Lucky number 10-17-21-23-34-39 consequently won in the Second Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of US$500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which is the winning payout for Category B winners.

Your prize awards will be paid to you upon endorsement of the WINNERS CERTIFICATE & ALL OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS relating to your won prize as a precautionary measure to ensure that payment are been paid to the rightful winner.

This is from a total cash prize of US$ 9,000,000.00 (Nine Million Dollars) shared amongst the first Twelve (12) lucky winners. In your best interest to avoid 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 processing of your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

As part of our security measure and prevent staff of the Kraslot Lottery from draw fixing your winning information has been forwarded to Financial Trust Consultancy an accredited agency responsible in the processing of your award won prize. This is because no ticket was sold.

Please contact our accredited processing agency (FINANCIAL TRUST AGENCY) on the following contact details below: Pls note, as all unclaim prize are nullified and cancelled after 10 days from the date of this notice:

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Contact person: Mr. Marvis V. Dekker.
Email: financialtrus@netscape.net
Tel: +31-642-874-665
Fax: +31-847-378-662

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NOTE: Do not respond back to this email address, do make contact with your claim agent on the above given email address

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Doris Van Holt.
(Lottery Coordinator).

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