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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.
  • mrthomas_lotteryagent3@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS LISA ADDISON" <lisa-addison03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrthomas_lotteryagent3@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:44:14 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!! CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.

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


Date: 25/11/2006
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!
Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 24th of November
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; 575061725 8056490902 serial number
6741137002 this batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 4-13-33-37-42bonus
number 17. You here by 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 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 States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is
conducted annually.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial Agent, MR THOMAS SMITH
at; (mrthomas_lotteryagent3@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.

All winnings MUST be claimed by the 20th of December 2006; otherwise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winning!

Best Regards
Mrs. Lisa Addison (For co-ordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT: [mrthomas_lotteryagent3@yahoo.com]

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

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