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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.
  • anita_culley@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "anita culley" <a.culley3@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:15:19 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

Ref :575061725
Batch:8056490902/188
Winning no:KB8701/LPRC
Dear Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS!!
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 7th of March
2007 from the
Australian International Lottery Programme which is fully based on an
electronic selection of winners using theire-mail addresses.
Your name was attached to
ticket number;5750617258056490902
serial number 6741137002.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows:4-13-33-37-42 bonus number
17,which won you the lottery in the second category.You hereby have been
approved a lump sum pay of US$400,000.00 (FOUR 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
from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,Australia,United
States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa 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 commmunities where they have operational base.Furthermore
your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office
in Amsterdam,Holland,and your prize of US$400,000.00 will be released to you
from our regional branch bureau.
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 ourFiducial Agent, Mrs ANITA CULLEY
at;(anita_culley@yahoo.com) to file for your claim.
Please quote your : Date of draw,Reference Number,Batch Number and
Winning Number,which can be found on the top-left corner of this
message.Also,you should give in your 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 has been 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 20th of March 2007;otherwise all
funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winning!
Best Regards.
MRS ANITA CULLEY

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT
anita_culley@yahoo.com
ENSURE YOU TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTLY TO ENSURE SAFE &QUICK MAIL
DELIVERY/RESPONSE. ANY BREACH OF ON CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS
WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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