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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"
• 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.
  • mrsjoubert@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "tommyg agent" <tommygold3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:24:47 -0800
Subject: Congratulation Lucky Winner


AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC
*Ref: 4758961725 **
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC
**CONGRATULATIONS* ....................

*Hello Dear,**
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on **the 5th
December 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; **
47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 *
*This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number **
17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby
have been approved a lump sum pay of US$200,000.00 (DOLLARS) in cash credit
file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$8,000,000.00shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.
*
* *
*All participants 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**office) and
**Oceania** as part of our international promotions program which is
conducted annually. *
*This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities 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 $200,000,.00USD, will be released to you from this
regional branch office in Amsterdam. We hope with part of your prize, you
will participate in our beginning of year
high stakes for 1.3 Billion pounds international draw. *
*HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE *
*contact the payment agent; mrsjoubert@gmail.com *
*

*
*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 by the th 0f 12th Dec 2006**
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity. *
*Congratulations once again on your winnings!!! *
***Best Regards *
*Carol Powel (co-ordinator) **
*
*PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS *
*BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION. *

*General Enquiries*
Street Address:
*AUSTRALIA** LOTTERY LOTTO: House
**41977-98 St. Kilda Road**
**Melbourne** VIC 3004*
*AUSTRALIA** . / **HOLLAND** .*

*Contact by email*<http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/_javascript:openWindow('http://www.tatts.com/cgi-bin/support/contact_us.pl','contact','width=470,height=500,location=no,menubar=no,directories=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no')>
Claiming A Prize:
*AUSTRALIA** LOTTERY LOTTO* : Customer Service
*AFRICAN AGENT PAYMENT OFFICE. *
*DEPARTMENT. ***
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