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

Fraud email example:

From: "UK LOTTO" <claim41@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:05:03 +0000
Subject: WINNER!!

bristish LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000,
South England

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS
MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, bristish LOTTO
LOTTERY INCORPORATION:

CONGRATULATIONS ...............................

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 23th SEPTEMBER,
2006. from the Australian International
Lottery programme.
Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses , your e-mail address was attached to ticket number
47061725 07056490902 serial number
7741137002.
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows bonus number , which
consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum of 1,000,000.00(pound) in cash
credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of
8,000,000.00(pound)
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 state,
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties where they
have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in london,
as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 1,000,000,00USD, will be
released to you from this
regional branch office in AFRICA been the HOST of the event this year:
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for 1.3 Billion international draw.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN
CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:

Ref: 4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact our fiducial Agent Mr Fred Jack Rollin.


agent_fredjack@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 as to help us 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 on or before the 10 -9- 06.
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donate to
charity .
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of
bristishL.LOTTERY Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you
for being part of this promotional lottery progress.

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

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

MANAGEMENT,

Bristish LOTTO LOTTE RY INC

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