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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.
  • pj_brown006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC. AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC."
<ipcc_uk@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: pj_brown006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:36:11 -0800
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION ,CONGRATULATIONS ...............................

AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
WINNER NO:
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD
PRESENTATION CENTER:AUSTRALIA
DATE:1/2/2007.

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 1/2/2007 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 batch
number 8056490902/188.
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 4-13-33-37-42bonus number 17,
which consequently won
the lottery in the second category.You hereby have been approved a lump sum
ofUS$200,000.00(DOLLARS) in
cash credit file ref ILP/HW47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$2,000,000.00(DOLLARS) 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 state,Europe,Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part
of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part
of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties where
they have operational base.
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 fiducial agent, Rev Good (pj_brown006@yahoo.co.uk) 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 as to
help us 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 of
this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all
winnings MUST be claimed on or
before the 28th ,3,2007.Otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed
and eventually donate to charity
..
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of AUSTRALIA
L.LOTTERY Cooperation to all
our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional
lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,

Rev Mark(co-ordinator).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:
(pj_brown006@yahoo.co.uk)
BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS
WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

THANKS:
MANAGEMENT, AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.

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