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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.
  • +31634239219 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Van Rob" <diretkbank@dnsau.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:58:27 GMT
Subject: Re: {Spam?} ACCOUNT OPENING FORM ATTACHED FILL AND RETURN

Direkt Bank
Karspeldreef 6A 1101 CJ
Tel:+31 634 239 219
Fax:+31 847 119 436 
Den Haag , Netherlands.
 
Dear Winner,

 Kindly be informed that you have just won your self a 1million euro by the Euro Lotto Million and my bank is the one to  remitt your won prize to your nominated account.there was never a lotto promotion before i guess you must have falling in to the wrong hands, may be we can also assist you to track them for you but first i have to disccus it with the Lotto Gaming Board.We strondly advise you keep this your winning details confidential to avoide double claims.

Thanks in advance for banking with us.
 
Yours Faithfully,
Evlyne Bakker(Mrs)
For: Mr. Van Rob
 

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