26th October 2004

GATEWAY SECURITY AGENCY.BV.

infostrikeagent@netscape.net < infostrikeagent@netscape.net >

YOU HAVE WON

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A another lottery variant of the 419 style of scam - uses the fake promise of a lottery win to eventually lure victim and trick them into giving away their bank details, or by requesting payments for 'administration costs'.

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1. A lottery variant of the 419 style of scam. Correspondance will simply result in requests for 'administration fees' to cover various costs, but you'll never actually get any money back!

2. GATEWAY SECURITY AGENCY.BV. almost certainly do not exist, and did you actually enter this lottery? An almost universal rule is that if you haven't entered a competition, you haven't won it! And even if you have the prize is likely is likely to be a fraction of that promised.

3. Notice that the sender uses a free, web based email address. A real company would almost certainly use their own.

4. An unusually simple scam - deliberately scarce on detail to look more like a reminder than a notification, designed to make the victim panic into thinking they've missed the first notification and rushing to send their details in 'before its too late'...