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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"
• 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.
  • edwardhamza_global2@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "infouk globallotto" <infoukgloballotto@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:27:41 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

Date: 24/10/2005
Ref: 7458222754
Batch: 905534213/255
Winning no: XB3/701/LNRC

CONGRATULATIONS!

Dear Lucky winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 30tht of June 2005 from the Australian
International Lottery programme. Which is fully based
on an electronic selection of winners using their Your
name was attached to ticket number; 7458222754,
905534213 serial number 6741137002 This batch draws
the lucky numbers as follows 2-17-43-47-52bonus number
17,which consequently won the lottery in the second
category.

You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$200,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/MW 47509/02 from the total cash
prize 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 and Oceania
as part of our international promotions program which
is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and
sponsored by conglomerates of some multinationals
companies as part of their social responsibility to
the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base.

Further more your details (e-mail address) fall within
our African representative office in Nigeria, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US$200,000.00 will be released to you from this
regional branch office in NIGERIA.

Simply contact our Financial Agent Mr Edward Hamza
with this email address;
edwardhamza_global2@yahoo.com
feedback@ukglobalottey.com

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 quote your Date of draw, reference, batch and
winning numbers, which can be found on the top left
corner of this 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 on or before 15th
of November 2005; otherwise all funds will be returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards,
MRS. Zenab Malik
{PROMOTION MANAGER}


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