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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 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.
  • agentbenjaminchuks@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • drbenjaminchuks@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Australia Lottery <australianowresult@live.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:28:33 +0000
Subject: FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT




FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZEAWARDS
DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL
SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY CORPORATION.


Dear Sir/Madam

We
are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 1/1/2008 from
the Australian International Lottery Programme with the following
information:

Date:1/1/2008
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC.

Which
is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number; 5750617258056490902
serial number 6741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows:
11-13-26-34-44-48 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in
the second category.

You hereby have been approved a prize of
US$200,000.00,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/02 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 conglomorate of some multinational companies in Australia as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities 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$200,000.00 will
be released to you from our Australian payment centre 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,AGENT BENJAMIN CHUKS at; {agentbenjaminchuks@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.

LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT
FULLNAME...................................
DATE OF BIRTH..............................
ADDRESS....................................
SEX........................................
AGE........................................
NATIONALITY................................
OCCUPATION.................................
TELEPHONE..................................
EMAIL......................................
DATE.......................................
SIGNATURE..................................
WINNER'S REF/BATCH NO...........................APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on/before one week from today.

Otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity. BE WARNED!
YOUR ADDRESS HAS WON

Congratulations once again on your winning!

Best Regards,
Mr. Hoopkins Ginn.(Coordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW;{agentbenjaminchuks@yahoo.com,drbenjaminchuks@hotmail.com}


ALSO
ENSURE YOU TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTLY TO ENSURE SAFE & QUICK
MAIL DELIVERY/RESPONSE. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF
WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION. [YOU MUST CLAIM YOUR PRICE ON OR BEFORE 21 DAYS]



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