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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.
• 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.
  • +31634666123 (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.
  • contactprocessingdept@gawab.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Nederlands Staatsloterij <eurolot@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: contactprocessingdept@gawab.com
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:29:42 +0100
Subject: Claims


Nederland Staatsloterij
Postbus 3334
5902 RH Venlo-Nederland
https://www.staatsloterij.nl
Ref No: STLI/88-5/0007.
Batch No: 587/9876JH.

Dear. Sir/Madam,
Your email address has won EUR 920,000:00 (Nine Hundred and Twenty Thousand =
Euro Only) in the Netherland Staatsloterij Sweeptakes, conducted on the 21st =
day of February 2008, sponsored by consortium of software promotion =
companies.

For claims and more informations, contact our processing department with the =
details below.

Mr. Peter.Gobec
Staatsloterij Processing Dept.
Tel: +31-634666123
Fax: +31-208907712
Fax +31 847195169
Email:contactprocessingdept@gawab.com
Your Winning Details.
Ref No: STLI/88-5/0007.
Batch No: 587/9876JH.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Clementina Colombo
Sweepstakes Coordinator.
Copyright =A9 2001-2008 Nederlands Staatsloterij

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