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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 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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign payment unit" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: maris garcia <marisgarcia@web.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:58:34 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-15?Q?2007/2008_LA_PRIMITIVA_LOTER=CDA_Y_APUESTAS_CASH-OUT_L?=
=?iso-8859-15?Q?OTTO_?=



LA PRIMITIVA LOTERÍA Y APUESTAS/ /CASH-OUT LOTTO BV SPANISH ZUID-OOST MADRID, THE ESPAÑA Calle/ Benito Perez Galdos, Nº 18 C.P 28806 Alcala De Henares Madrid Spain INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT. DATE: 14th December, 2007. Dear Lucky Winner, We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of LA PRIMITIVA LOTERÍA Y APUESTAS/ /CASH-OUT LOTTO international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information: Ref: ILP/AS47509/06, Batch:05/763638/IPD, Winning no: 1113 26 34 44 48 Ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number 02 You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of EUR € 66,500 Euros ( Sixty-Thousand Five Hundred Euros Only) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below: To file for your claim, please contact the processing paying bank: ALFREDO LOPEZ , FOREIGN PAYMENT UNIT, LA CAIXA BANK, Madrid Spain. Email: bancolacaixaes@ozu.es [mailto:bancolacaixaes@ozu.es], Telephone number:0034654889800 . Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the age of 17 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Please note; You are hereby advice to send the assigned bank Agent details below for Processing of your Claims. (1.) FULL NAME: (2) FULL ADDRESS: (3).NATIONALITY.: (4) AGE.:
(5) OCCUPATION: (6)TELEPHONE NUMBER: (7) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION: (8) SEX:
(9) TOTAL AMOUNT WON: (10) MARITAL STATUS: (11)EMAIL ADDRESS: Reply to this confidential email account: bancolacaixaes@ozu.es [mailto:bancolacaixaes@ozu.es]. ALL WINNING MUST BE CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE THE 15th OF January 2008. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Yours in service, Mrs. Linda T GarciaExecutive Co-ordinator(SPANISH LOTTERY Inc).



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