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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "amsterdam holland" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +22993901275 (Benin, probably a 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.
  • ericjohn1@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Pearl Brown <mrs_p_brown1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ericjohn1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:20:07 +0000
Subject: WORLDWIDE PROMOTION, CONGRATULATIONS!!!




WORLDWIDE PROMOTION CONGRATULATIONS!!!
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY CORPORATION.

Winning Numbers GB8701/LPRR

AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 2nd of DEC 2007 from the UK International Lottery Programme with the following information:
Date:02/12/2007
Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRR

Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses. Your name was attached to ticket number; 47161725070564909 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 prize of US$950,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY 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 participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from One 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 conglomerate of some multinational companies in UK as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Amsterdam Holland, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$950,000.00 will be released to you from our UK regional branch bureau in Cotonou, Benin Rep.

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, REV Eric John Via (Email:ericjohn1@yahoo.fr ) 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 un official personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed by the 28 Dec 2007, otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winning!

ALSO ENSURE YOU CONTACT REV. Eric John CORRECTLY ON HIS EMAIL ericjohn1@yahoo.fr WITH THE FOLLOWING INFOR:

1. Your Full Name........................
2. Contact Address.....................
3. Phone/fax.................................
4. Country....................................
5. Occupation..............................
6. Age/sex....................................

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.


PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT VIA EMAIL (ericjohn1@yahoo.fr )
Tel: +229 9390 1275.
Fax:+229 2132 4246











Yours faithfully, APPROVEDMrs Pearl Brown.Online coordinator for UK LOTTO PROGRAMME, Sweepstakes International Program.THANKS:MANAGEMENT, AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC. LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS; MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK.MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA.MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA.MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.
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