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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:

• 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.
  • +34659508091 (Spain, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: VSL CLAIM CENTER <winningsclaimcentre2007@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:40:06 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: ATTN.Winner Emmy Schaefder


Reference Number: SL/90-SP/5262
Batch: SL/18- GmbH/63733

ATTN.Emmy Schaefder,

We are very happy over your response. You have not done any wrong in makeing inquiries,This is to enable you ensure that you are getting the right information.Which we are very grateful for that. And I hopefully belief that it is Due to the news and scams these days we receive from the internet.

This Victoria state lottery programm, was conducted from an exclusive list Of 25 000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked By an advanced automated random computer ballot search from the Internet As part of our international promotions program which we conduct every year.No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, this was when Your e-mail address was picked up.

We want you to understand that we are only here to make remittance of your payment To you nothing more than that, you have to follow our instruction, if really You want to process your winnings claim, You are to please fill the attached form,Which was sent to you, indicating your mode of payment? If you do not want to make the claims of your winning price, which is (€650.000.00) SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS. A claim refusal form will be sent to you. Which you are to sign For your winnings claim refusal, and send the form back to us. Moreover this filled form also guides us over double claims of winnings,which we have sometime expirience before.

Please, find our contact below:
TEL: +34-659-508-091
FAX: +34-912-725-143 European claim centre fax number
FAX: 00161-437-7909 America Sponsor Fax number.

Congratulations and Thanks you for contacting us and we wish you the best.

Yours Faithfully
MR. Felipe Morris (D.O.P)


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