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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")
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +2348061669420 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • barr-christian-chambers@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SOUTH AUSTRALIA LOTTERY" <s_australian@eliteweb.cc>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:03:05 -0800
Subject: ((((((((((CONGRATULATIONS))))))))))

Date: 08/01/2006
Ref: 475061727
Batch: 7056490934/2007
Winning Numbers 1 2 26 30 40 21




AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

Attn: Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of South
Australian International Lottery Programmes held on the
6th of January 2006 from the South 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; 17214 Serial Number
7741137009. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 8-3-8-2-4-2
bonus number 17, 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 DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
47509/07
from the total cash prize 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 conglomerate of some multinational companies and also the
Australian Government 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 African representative office
in
Abuja,Nigeria, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize o!
f US$400,000.00 will be released to you from our regional branch office
in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. We hope with part of your prize, you will
participate in our end of year high stakes for US$2.3 Million
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims agent, BARRISTER
CHRISTIAN O.KNOPP at; barr-christian-chambers@hotmail.com
CONTACT PHONE:+2348061669420

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: Your prize won will expire after (14)days of no response.

BEST REGARDS
GREG WILLIAMS
(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)

CONFIRMATION FORM.

NAME................................................................

EMAIL ADDRESS.......................................................

OCCUPATION..........................................................

YOUR WINNING DETAILS ..............................................

YOUR FULL ADDRESS....................................................

NATIONALITY..........................................................

MOBILE/PHONE........................................................

SEX.................................................................

AGE.................................................................


CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT : barr-christian-chambers@hotmail.com
CONTACT PHONE:+2348061669420

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


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