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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • revjohneze@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Australia International Promotion" <win_au_inter@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:42:56 +0100
Subject: RE: AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION (CONGRATULATIONS )

Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 29 of Sept 2006
from the Australian
International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of Winners using their e-mail addresses. Your name was attached to
ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 this batch
draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42bonus number 17,which
consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US$800,000.00 (EIGHT
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the
total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All
participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form
Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United
States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the Communities where they have operational base. Further more
your details (e-mail address) fall within our European representative office
in msterdam, Holland, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US$800,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in
Africa were your payment will be transferred from.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducially agent,
revjohneze@myway.com to file for your claim. Please quote your reference,
batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help
locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until
your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by
non-participant or unofficial
personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 8th of oct 2006; otherwise all
funds will be returned as
Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity Congratulations once again on
your winnings!!!

Best Regards Carol Smith (co-coordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT
revjohneze@myway.com
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULTTO
DISQUALIFICATION

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