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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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.
  • johnalbart@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "aussie lotto" <aussie_1_2006@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:15:18 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.



Lottery Representative Consulate General 2,
Walter Carrington Crescent,Victoria Island,
Broad Street,Lagos,Nigeria.
234-8038863109.
Fax:1-514-372-2963.


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

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 7th oct, 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 of (4 million dollas) 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. john albart at
johnalbart@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 johnalbart@yahoo.com

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