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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.
• 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.
  • ag.billagreh.h@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Information Dept. Australia Lottery 2008." <winnerinfo7@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:38:35 +0100
Subject: Date: 02-06-2008.


FROM: AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY CORPORATION.
Australia Latest Results for the Lotto Game Inc.

We are delighted to inform you of our prize release of 2nd of JUNE 2008
from the Australian International Lottery Program with the following
information:

Date: 02/06/2008
Ref: 575061725
Winning File No: KB8701/PRC.

This Lottery is fully based on an electronic selection of winners
using their e-mail address and your email address was attached to ticket
number; 575061725 8056490902, 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 $250,000.00 (Two Hundred And Fifty

Thousand United States 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, U.S.A, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our African
representative office in Nigeria as indicated in your coupon and your
prize of $250,000.00 USD will be released to you from our
Australian payment center in Nigeria.

To Claim Your Prize: Simply contact our Fiducial Agent,

Mr. Bill Agreh Holmes;
ag.billagreh.h@gmail.com
To claim; You have to quote your Date of draw, Reference Number and
Batch Numbers. 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 abuse of this program by
non-participants or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on/before 10/06/2008.
Otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed.

Congratulations once again on your winning!

Australian International Lottery Inc.
(C)2008. All Rights Reserved.

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