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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"
• 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.
  • award_claims_department@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: amirsajad esmaili <amirsajadesmaili@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:08:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I HAVE A QUESTION,PLEASE GUIDE ME.


HELLO Mr.wein.

i recieved an email that was certificated from you. i want to know do you certificate it really? or it was kidding.
here is the email:

HEAD OFFICE:
6123 Cool Street Rd.
somewher vulle Ax34587,
AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on 1st of Jan-
2006
from the Australian International Lottery programme.Which is fully
based
on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were
assigned
to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

You hereby have been
approved a lump sum pay of £200,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) in
cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47405/01 from the total cash prize of
£4.8million
shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participant
were
selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred
thousand
E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe,
Middle
Eastand Oceania as part of our international promotions program which
is
conducted annually.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized
email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 900,000 email
addresses
drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board!!? and also Licensed by
the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery
is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public!!!!????
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE : Simply contact our fiducial agent,MR.CHARLES
COLE
AT:award_claims_department@yahoo.co.uk to file for your claim.

please tel me if it was kidding or not? and do you certificate it?

best regards,
amir.



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