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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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024016797 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • agentlevi_australianlottery@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "nama muoly" <matter0@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:17:14 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WONIII



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

CONGRATULATIONS
YOUR EMAIL IS ONE OF THE EMAILS THAT WON THIS YEARS AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY,
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO BE PART OF THIS DRAW OF LOTTERY. IT IS BY
RANDOM SELECTION OF SOME EMAILS, WHICH IF YOUR EMAIL IS ONE, YOU ARE A
WINNER.

Date:7/9/2006
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188

Winning Numbers
1
2
26
30
40
21

AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE
Attention: Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of
Australian International Lottery Programmes held on 6th of SEPTEMBER 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$200,000.00 (TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from
the total cash prize shared amongst Eight lucky winners in this category.


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 participants where 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 and also the Australian Government 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 our regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$4.3 Million
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims agent, Mr LEVI SMITH
agentlevi_australianlottery@yahoo.com
phone number:+447024016797
:+447024016803

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 before the 30th of SEPTEMBER 2006
otherwise all funds will be forfited. Congratulations once again on your
winning!
Past winners.


BEST REGARDS


MR LEVI SMITH (LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION



Copyright 1985-2006 Australian International Lottery Inc. All Rights
Reserved






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