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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign service manager" (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 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.
  • laprimitivagent1@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: info dept <info_lottery1@web.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:44:39 +0200
Subject: Online La Primitiva Award Winner!!!


Online La Primitiva Award Winner!!!
>From The Desk Of The
Director General
La Primitiva Award
Sandalo 3, 28042 Madrid -Spain.
Attn: BENEFICIARY
We are please to announce you as one of the 9 lucky winners in the La Primitiva Lottery International Email Address draw on the 28th May. Due to the mixture of names and address the result was released on the 8th June 2007. All 9 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 30,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged along side 6 others as a category 4 winner in the La Primitiva Lottery Draw. Consequently, therefore you have been approved for a total pay out of €615,810.00 (Six hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred and ten euros only).The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: (I) Batch No: 24/090132/QIBMW.
(ii) Ticket No: 12324277
(iii) Lucky No: 11 23 29 36 43 48-C8R
(iv) Ref No: VBP/30124785KL/0POR
(V) Serial No: 1-2-34-01-96-0KL

The La Primitiva Lottery Program internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 140 countries worldwide.To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winning prize and remember to give him your contact address and telephone number and fax number. DIRECTOR: Dr. Carlos Alfonso,
La Primitiva Agent.(Foreign Service Manager)
Servando Batanero 1 28017 Madrid -Spain
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laprimitivagent1@aim.com [mailto:laprimitivagent1@aim.com] Congratulations once again and we wish you continue good fortunes
Best regards,
Mrs Maria Jose
La Primitiva Lottery
LAST WINNERS ON LA PRIMITIVA LOTERIA ESPAÑA





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