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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.
  • agent_claim_australainlotto@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: aust_lotto_winners@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:22:39 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONGRATULATION=21=21=21=21=20YOU=20HAVE=20WON=20=24200=2C000=20=5BDOLLARS=5D?=

AUSTRALIAN
LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC

Date:29/7/2006
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS ! !! !!!
Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your
prize release on the 29TH of JULY 2006 from the
Australian International Lottery
programme.[www.australianlottolottery.com] Which is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners
using their e-mail addresses.
Your name was attached to ticket number; 575061725
8056490902 serial number 6741137002 This batch draws
the lucky numbers as
follows 4-13-33-37-42 bonus 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/HW 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 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$200,000.00 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.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial
agent, Bar Longi Kudu at ;
(agent_claim_australainlotto@yahoo.co.uk) to file
for your claim . Please quote your Date of
draw,Reference Number, Batch Number and Winning
Number, which can be found on the top-left corner of
this message. Also, you should give in your 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 has been 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
20th AUGUST 2006; otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity. Congratulations once again on your winning!

Best Regards
Mr louis Larry
(For co-ordinator)

PLEASE DO REPLY THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT Bar Longi Kudu AT :
[agent_claim_australainlotto@yahoo.co.uk] ANY
BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION .





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