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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)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • parcolly2@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: lottery lottery <australianlotteryprograme_2006a@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:22:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAVE WON ONLINE LOTTERY""""
















                                       AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC. 5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000,
South Australia.   DATE:1 April 2009.  
CONGRATULATIONS ...............................

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 1 April 2009.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 of US$200,000.00(DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$1,600,000.00(DOLLARS)
 shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected
through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine
hundred thousand E-mail addresses from canada,Australia, United state, 
Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
 international promotion program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of
their social responsibilities to the citizens in the communitties where they have operational
bases.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our African representative office ,
as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$200,000,00USD, will be released to you from this 
 regional branch office  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.   PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:                                                                                         Ref: 4758961725

Batch: ALLINC
70564943902/188 Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact our fiducial agent, Reverend Collins Amadi, at
{parcolly2@yahoo.com} to file for your claim .
Please quote your reference, batch and winning
numbers which can be
found on the top left 
corner of this notification letter as well as your full name, address and telephone number as to help us locate your
file easily.
For security reasons, we advise 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnels.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on or before the  end of May 2009.
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity . 
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC to all our  lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this
promotional lottery program.

  Yours Sincerely,    
Carol Smith(co-ordinator).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT:
{parcolly2@yahoo.com}
  ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.         THANKS: MANAGEMENT, AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
      Past winners round the world
with full of
excitment
      
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