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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:
  • ",500,000" (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 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 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.
  • claimsofficer@mail.gr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion" <mRImhoo@operamail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:50:53 +0800
Subject: END OF THE AWARD.

FROM POSTCODE LOTERIJ NL
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Ticket Number: NL/BC336791/HY07.

In view of the yearly sweepstake of the above named organization held
recently we are pleased to inform you that your e-mail address attached to
the above ticket Number:NL/BC336791/HY07,Winning Prize Number: 2941XG and
Lucky number 5256JA, came up in the first dip. This invariably means that
you have emerged as the prize winner of the sum of €1,500,000.00 Euros {One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros} in the second category.

Be informed that all participants were selected from a random computing
ballot system. This charitable sweepstake is sponsored by postcdeloterij.nl
and government parastatals.It is in your best interest and to avoid mix up
of numbers and names of any kind that we request you

Keep the entire details of your winning strictly from public notice until
the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds
remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claims and unscrupulous acts by participants/ non participants of
this program.

To claim your winning, you should contact the OFFICIAL and APPROVED paying
bank here in Holland-Netherlands urgently:-

Herman Petrus.
PostBank BL
www.postbank.nl
Email:- claimsofficer@mail.gr


You are also advice to furnish them with the following
Information:-
Your Names:-
Telephone / Fax-
Your Nationality {Your country of Origin}-
E-Ticket number-
Prize Number-

Congratulations once again from management and staff of this company, and
thanking you for being a lucky winner of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Mariam Roosje -Hoo
NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion
www.postcodeloterij.nl

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam