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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
- +31619252510 (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.
- dimaxcaps@aol.com (AOL; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "De Lotto NL." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dimaxcaps@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:01:34 +0200
Subject: Good Day Greetings.

De Lotto NL Company.
Reference Number: FRN/17100/DENL
Batch Number: DL/13212/039ZX.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the out come of our Promotional Sweepstake program that was conducted recently and that your email address which was extracted from the Internet Data Base like other email addresses and attach to a batch number DL/13212/039ZX, has won you a prize money of 1,925,000 euro (One Million, Nine Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Euros) in cash as credited to the payment file Ref. number: FRN/17100/DENL. You can begin the claim processes of your winning funds immediately by contacting our funds release department through the below stated details.

De Lotto Payment Center.
Tel: +31-619-252510
Fax: +31-847-148046
Email: dimaxcaps@aol.com

As a precautionary measure, we kindly ask that you keep your winning information private until your claim has been processed and your prize money remitted to you as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. This lottery program was promoted and sponsored by a consortium of software companies in Different Countries to increase the awareness of their software packages. We hope with part of your winning you will be able to contribute to Charity Project in your Country. Your winning must be claimed not later than the 30days of your receipt of this message. Please note that in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications do remember to provide them with the following details.

1). Full Names (As prefer to be Written on your Winning Documents):
2). Residential Address:
3). Occupation:
4). Phone/Fax Numbers:
5). Nationality:
6). Reference Number:
7). Winning Email Address:

Congratulations and thanks for being part of our Lottery program.

Sincerely yours,
Guus Mayer. (Programs Coordinator)
For: Lotto NL. (Lotto is een onderdeel van De Lotto).
Copyright(c) 2009 by De Lotto, the Netherlands.
Website: http://lotto.nl

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