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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"
• 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")
• 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.
  • +2348034126020 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
  • 23417591073
• 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.
  • lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
  • lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
  • lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
  • lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Joshua Mark" <lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:28:40 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON AUSTRALIA LOTTERY PRIZE !!! PRIZE FUND

AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
Date: 15/10/2005
Ref: 4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS ....................
OFFICE EMAIL:lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the
20nd of JULY - 2005 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 ticke 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 pay of US$200,000.00 (
DOLLARS)
in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United
States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, (Africa office)and Oceania as part of our
international
promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies 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,.00USD, will be released to you from this regional branch office
in Amsterdam.
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, DR JOSHUA MARK . at
lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
to file for your claim . Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as
well as your
full name, address and 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 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 claimed by the 30TH november, 2005
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards
Carol Smith(co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.

General Enquiries

Street Address:
AUSTRALIA LOTTERY LOTTO: House
41977-98 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
AUSTRALAI. / HOLLAND.
Tel:+61-88090421314-980
(Monday to Friday 8am-5pm AEST)

Contact by email
Claiming A Prize:
AUSTRALIA LOTTERY LOTTO : Customer Service
AFRICAN AGENT OFFICE.
DEPARTMENT:
www. lottery.com
Email:lottoaustralianincorporation@hotmail.com
Tel:234-80-3412-6020
Fax:234-1-7591073


DR JOSHUA MARK.
FUDICIAL AGENT.

AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTYER SUPERDRAWS!!!

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