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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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.
  • edwardbrownagent@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: aussie lotto <ausielottoinc@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WININNG




Lottery Representative Consulate General 2,
Walter Carrington Crescent,Victoria Island,
Broad Street,Lagos,Nigeria.


Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 29th aug, 2006 from the Aussie- International e-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; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$500,000.00 (FIVE 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 form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Africa, Australia,
America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted bi-annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to
the citizens.Further more, your details(e-mail address) falls within our African-Euro representative office Africa and Europe, as indicated and your prize
of US$500,000.00 will be released to you either from this regional branch office in AFRICA or LONDON.

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 fudiciary agent,Mr.Edward Brown at (edwardbrownagent@yahoo.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,so that your prize can be sent to you on time, otherwise all funds will be termed as Unclaimed and eventually returned back to the national treasury.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!


Mrs. Clara Thompson
Executive Co-ordinator(australian Lottery Inc).


PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL,CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT AT edwardbrownagent@yahoo.com



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