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

Fraud email example:

From: kaethbalard07@voila.fr
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:21:15 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT CONFIRMATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!


URGENT CONFIRMATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!
POSTCODE LOTERIJ NL.
RESULTS FOR FIRST CATEGORY
Ticket Number: 6367HZ
This is to inform you that your email ID has won US$1,500.000.00 in the first dip of our computer
ballot email lottery with the said winning numbers giving below;
Ticket number: 6367HZ
Prized Number: 2396GM
Lucky number : 1606NH
To claim your winning,you should contact the OFFICIAL and APPROVED paying bank here in Holland-Netherlands urgently:-
LEVOB BANK NL
Email: levobbnknlclaim@aim.com
Webpage: www.Levob.nl
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,
Mr.Kaethe Ballard
NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ PROMOTION
Visit our website at: www.postcodeloterij.nl
Copyright © 1992-2008 postcodeloterij! Inc. All rights reserved
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