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

Fraud email example:

From: "Adam Rose." <aus_results@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:36:16 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!

FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN
INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY COPORATION.

Date2/09/2006

WINNING:KB8701/LPRC
REF:575061725
BATCH NUMBER:08564490902/188

Winning Numbers 1 2 26 30 40 21

AWARD NOTIFICATION:
Attn: Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result
winners of Australian International Lottery Programmes
held on the 30th of August. 2006 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 ticket
number; 675061725 9356460902 serial number
67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as
follows 2-9-23-35-46 bonus number 14,which
consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You are here by have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
category. YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential
until your claims has been processed and your money
remitted to your nominated bank. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claims and
unwarranted abuse of this programme by some
participants.All participant were selected through a
computer/mail 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$400,000.00 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$2.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial
agent, Mr Ronald Smith at agent_ronald_australotto@yahoo.com
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 and also to the public. 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 16th September
2006;
otherwise all funds will be forfited. Congratulations
once again on your winning!

BEST REGARDS
ADAM ROSE (MRS)
(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)

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

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS
WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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