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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:

• 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 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.
  • +2348038757839 (Nigeria, 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.
  • agentandrewpeters@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Australian International lottery" <agentandrewpeters@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:35:40 -1200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING

Date: 18/11/2006
Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Lucky Winner,We are delighted to inform you of your
prize release
on the 18th, November, 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 5-13-33-37-42 bonus
number 17,which consequently won the
lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$
500,000.00 (FIVE
HUNDERED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
47509/02
from the total cash prize of US$4,000,000.00 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 conglomorate 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
African
representative office in Nigeria,West Africa, as indicated
in your play
coupon and your prize of US$500,000.00 will be released to
you from
this regional branch office in Nigeria. 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 fiducial agent In
Nigeria,Rev Andrew Peters at (Agentandrewpeters@yahoo.com)
TEL,+234 803 875 7839.

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 30th November,
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-ordinator)

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