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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • " lotto international " (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +34636601762 (Spain, 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.
  • infoclaimcentre@mixmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • infoclaimcentreespana@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "infoxas@terra.es" <infoxas@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:52:02 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Award Notice!!!


Award Notice!!!
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Promotion Department of the EUROMILIONES INTL, wishes to congratulate you on your success as one of the THREE LUCKY STAR PRIZE WINNER of 900,165.11 Euros (Nine hundred thousand, one hundred and sixty-five euros, eleven cents only) of the EUROMILIONES lotto International Promotion (ELP) that was held on the 24 of August 2007, in Spain.

Ref No (MD/908/50952 8/SP), Ticket number BL/8704/163/60, Lucky Number (1-3-16-42-48-2-3). To immediately claim your prize, contact the claim/paying agent on the telephone number & email below.

EURO CLAIM CENTRE
=======================================
CONTACT PERSON. (MR. ADAMS FERNANDO)
MADRID, SPAIN.
TEL: 0034-636-601-762.
CONTACT E-MAIL: infoclaimcentre@mixmail.com infoclaimcentreespana@gmail.com

N.B: Terms and conditions to claiming your prize:
*********************************************************
(1). Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claim/paying agent above to enable the process of your winning (2). indicate your full names and address, Country, Contact telephone numbers, mobile, fax number, occupation and your Lucky numbers and Reference number to your claim/paying agent above.

3. Your winning Prize is not DEDUCTABLE until your winnings has been processed, approved and transferred to you by your claim agent above. Please, note that you the beneficiary will be require to obtained a VETT/APPROVAL DOCUMENT of your lucky WINNING EMAIL ADDRESSE CHANGED to your FULL NAMES, before your winning prize can be transferred to your designated account of your choice by the claim/paying agent above.

Please be informed that due to mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask you to keep your winning Information confidential until your winning prize of (900,165.11 Euro) has been processed and transferred to your designated account of your choice; this is to avoid double claim and unwarranted abuse of the programme by some participants.

We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Angel Sanchez Canovas.
Online co-ordinator.





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