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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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.
  • mrvandicksonauslotoagent@yahoo.es

Fraud email example:

From: Australian Lottery Headquaters <lisaaddisson25@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:58:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!(Your E-mail Has Won US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)


Date 02/02/2007
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 02nd of February 2008 from the Australian International Lottery Programme for the end of the year which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their email 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$500,000.00 (FIVE 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 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 conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

HOW TO CLAIM: contact our Fiducial Agent, Mr Van Dickson at;( mrvandicksonauslotoagent@yahoo.es) for your claim and cash collection and also for your winning certificate, which will be sent to you as
genuine proof of your winning. With the filled of the form below and send to him immediately and also 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 claime immediately;otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually donated to charity. Congratulations once again on your winning and compliment of the season!

PAYMENT FORM

SECTION ; A
WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM
WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA First Name.: [input] *

Middle Name.: [input]
Last Name.: [input] *



Gender.: MaleFemale



Month Of Birth.: Month January Febuary March April MayJune JulyAugust September October November December
Day: Day1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Year: [input]



Marital Status.: Single Married Divorced
Nationality.: [input] *
Religion.: [input]
Occupation.: [input]

Address 1.: [input] *
Address 2.: [input]
City.: [input] *
State/Province.: [input] *
Zip Code.: [input] *



Mobile phone No.: [input] *
House Phone No.: [input] *
Fax No.: [input]
Email Address.: [input] * eg. username@domainname.com


SECTION ; B
WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number.: [input] *

Refrence Number.: [input] *
Winning Number; [input] *

PAYMENT INFORMATION
SELECT A MEANS OF PAYMENT THAT IS CONVENIENT FOR YOU.
A) BANK TRANSFER ;Yes: [input] OR No: [input] ( B) ELECTRONIC MONEY TRANSFER ;Yes: [input] OR No: [input]
If Bank transfer;
NAME AND ADDRESS OF BANK;_________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER;______________________________________________________________

This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: [input] No: [input]



Best Regards.
MRS LISA ADDISON
(For the co-ordinator)
ENSURE YOU TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTLY TO ENSURE SAFE AND QUICK MAIL DELIVERY/RESPONSE. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.
Mrs. Lisa Addison.


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