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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:45:02 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: ATTN.Reference Number: SL/90-SP/5262


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

ATTN. Ms.Emmy Schaefder,

With due respect and concern, Ms Emmy Schaefder, the advice that I will like to give to you, is that you should always courageous in anything you are doing. Always delete the doubt of failure off your mind, always claim victory in anything you are doing. I know that you might have gone through some weird circumstance and moment in your life, due to your explanations in your previous mail.

The major reason of you being insecure and not totally certain is doubt. And the reason why, is your past encounter when you sometimes mentioned in your previous mail about you haven come across a lottery winning before. And you paid to them some money, and ever since then you did not hear from them. Just as you wrote in your past mail. This entire thing is as a result of internet cheat and theft, where by some group of people inpersonate.we have for long been protesting and writing against all this internet theft and also trying all means to put all this to an end.

Moreover our winnings claim firm that is dealing with you presently, their job, is all about remitting winning claims to our winners. Just as we explained in our previous mail, This Victoria state lottery program, 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. We did not sell any ticket. After this automated computer ballot, this was when your e-mail address was picked up. This is how it happens every year.

In reference to your social security, I will like to let you know that any of your information, being given to us is safe. The main reason why we normally request for them during the process of filling the form is to really know, confirm our winners and know the person we are dealing with, and making payment to. All personal information’s being sent to our department, are legalized and notarized by the High Court of Justice here in Spain. (Alto Tribunal de Justicia aquí en España).

Please Ms Emmy Schaefder, if you know that you do not want to accept your claims winning due to your doubts, as soon as you notify us, we will send a winnings claims fund refusal form to you, indicating your refusal of winning claims. You will then be advised to fill and remit the form back to our office.

I do sincerely hope that you will accommodate this response.

Contacts:

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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