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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.
• 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 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.
  • rev_pauldavis2@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dave well <davewell_11@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 07:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!



27/05/06
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the 27th of May 2006, from the Australian International Lottery programme,which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in
the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$1.3,000.000 (ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion 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 anoperational base. Furthermore, 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$1.3,000.000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA.

We hope that 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,REV PAUL DAVIS 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-participants or unofficial personnel.Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 28th of June 2006; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organisations.PLEASE CONTACT REV PAUL DAVIS, so that he will tell you of how you will receive your winning prize.

Name:REV PAUL DAVIS
Email:rev_pauldavis2@yahoo.com
Congratulations once again on your win!!!
Best Regards (co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR
CLAIMS AGENT AT ANY BREACH OF
CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT
TO DISQUALIFICATION


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