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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • +31619114285 (Netherlands, 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.
  • enquiryinfolotteryorg07@yahoo.dk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "EUROPEAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL " <falconec@isd.wol.net.pk>
Reply-To: enquiryinfolotteryorg07@yahoo.dk
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:26:24 +0000
Subject: YOU HAVE WON/CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT ASAP !!!



Attention: Benificiary

We like to bring to your notice that you are the first ever
international benificiary to our cash grant donation we are having now.And we like
to inform
you that your email address has won you a jackpot of $2,000,000.00.
For more details contact:
Executive Secretary,
Mr. Patrick Janssen
Tel:+31 619 114 285
Fax:+318 474 54671.
Email:enquiryinfolotteryorg07@yahoo.dk
After the automated computer ballot, your E-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category " B" with the following qualification numbers
(N-222-6747, E-900-58).
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Angela Jones
(Foundation officer)
Call to confirm.......... (N-222-6747, E-900-58)



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