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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +2348068808071 (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.
  • agentrevmicheal@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Australian Lottery Inc <revjohnchurchill34@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:35:53 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS(your emails has won the sum of $500,000.00 USD)

AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY         

 

                        UNI,24 HIGHER AVENUE HARRIS PARK
                                                    GRANVILLE NSW  0152 SYDNEY
                                                    AUSTRALIA

 

 

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

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Lucky winner ,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release for
the month of Setp,2007 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 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: A2000 SO/AB/CI/049/01 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, 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
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
New year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial agent in
Nigeria,

Contact Name: Rev. Father micheal
Email: agentrevmicheal@yahoo.com
and his number is (+234)-8068808071.

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 programmed by
non-participant orunofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before this month runs
out. otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed and
eventually donated to charity.

 

So get back to your agent with all these infos

 

1, Your full names

2, Your address

3, Your age

4, Your dirrect telephone number

5, Your occupation

6  You country.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

                                                                                                  

                                                                 
                                                                      Carol sweet 

                                                               
Yours faithfully,                                         
Carol Sweet
Online coordinator for                
AUSTRALIAN  LOTTO PROGRAMME,  
Sweepstakes International Program.
                         
 
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY ANY EMAIL APART FROM THIS TO AVIOD MISS DIRRECTION OF FUND AND TO AVIOD SCAM EMAIL .

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