419 scam: "All National Lottery"<admin@neoplanta.co.rs> Congratulations.. Nathional Lotto Winner

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "claims office" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "hundred thousand united state dollars" (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)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- alllottowinners@clix.pt (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "All National Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <alllottowinners@clix.pt>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:36:47 -0700
Subject: Congratulations.. Nathional Lotto Winner

The All National Lottery
P.O.Box 100098
DeKalb County
Alabama 35004, USA

Dear Lucky Winner

The All National Lottery Day wishes to inform you that you have won the sum of $2.400.000.00(Two Million Four Hundred Thousand United State Dollars)The All National Lottery Day. draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 13 lucky emails of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search. No tickets were sold

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Batch Nr: TNL 7317635197437-ZQG/2010.
Security File Nr:067050797737.
Ref Nr: TNL 21870209289/ES 977.
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AGREEMENT

The National Lottery day and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 2009 National Lottery day celebration hereby Agrees, That the winning information written above are the orignal winning information as it was selected by the computer on 5th day of June 2010, And that the winner who these winning information has been sent to,will be paid the winning sum of $2.400.000.00 without fail.

To file for your claims and due remittance of funds contact Melvin Bye on the information below.

Claims Officer
Name: Melvin Bye
Remittance Department Personnel
Email:alllottowinners@clix.pt
Phone: 202-506-9848
Fax: 206-600-6935
www.alllotto.com

You are required to claim your winnings by June 30th, 2010 otherwise it rolls over to the next draw.

N.B: Procedures to claiming your prize:
1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.
2. Indicate your Full Name, Address, Country, Telephone, Mobile, Fax Number, Occupation and Age.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do Inform the CLAIM AGENT as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff.
Once again on behalf of all our staff CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified...

For a smooth and safe collection, you are required to keep your Reference Number confidential.

Congratulations..

Dr.Campbell Edwin
Winnings Coordinator

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