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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.
  • +447031837433 (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: MRS ADAMS <hkerrfdse@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:23:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON(reply to the australianlottery agent immediately to claim your winning prize)


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:02/11/2006
REF NUMBER:475061725
BATCH NUMBER:7056490902/188
WINNING NUMBER:GB8701/LPRC



Winning Numbers
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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 1st 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$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash prize of 160000 which will be 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$400,000.00 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,in London Mr.Levi Smith:
agentlevi_australianlottery@yahoo.com
phone number:+447031837433,+447031837421
Call during working HOURS.

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 November 2006 otherwise all funds will be forfited. Congratulations once again on your winning!

APPROVED





Best regards,
Dr Mrs Rose adams
(Financial Director.)

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

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT Mr.levi Smith. ESQ. agentlevi_australianlottery@yahoo.com

THANKS:
MANAGEMENT, AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.

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