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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.
  • prolottopostbank@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "POSTCODE LOTERIJ" <natpostcodeloterij@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:28:27 +0400
Subject: END OF YEAR BONANZA..YOU WON!


AWARD NOTIFICATION
POSTCODE LOTERIJ NL.
www.postcodeloterij.nl
HOLLAND-NETHERLANDS.
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Ticket Number: NL/BC336791/HY07.

Dear Winner,

In view of the yearly[END OF THE YEAR} 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,Prized Number:
2941XG and Lucky number 5256JA, came up in the first dip in this
organisations end of year bonanza.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
postcodeloterij.nl{www.postcodeloterij.nl}multinational companies and some
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,DO NOT CONTACT US ,rather you should contact the
OFFICIAL and APPROVED paying bank here in Holland-Netherlands urgently:-

The Nationale Postcode Processing Officer,
PostBank NL
www.postbank.nl
Email:-prolottopostbank@aim.com /// prolottopostbank@aim.com
Fax:-++31-847141653

You are also advice to furnish them with the following information:-

Your Names:-_____________________________________________________

Contact address:-___________________________________________________

Telephone Numbers / Fax:-___________________________________________

Your Nationality{Your country of
Origin}:-_______________________________________

Your Age:-___________________________________

Your Occupation:-__________________________________

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

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