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

Fraud email example:

From: "Lotto Agent Australia" <smartoswald1@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:05:29 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON $250,000.00

FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS
DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
CORPORATION;


Date: 07/03/2007
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 05/763638/1PD


Winning Numbers ILP/HW47509/02
AWARD NOTIFICATION:
FINAL NOTICE


Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Australian
International Lottery Pro grammes held on the 6th of March, 2007 from the
Australian International Lottery pro gramme. Which is fully based on an
electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name was
attached to ticket number; 6750617259356460902 Serial Number 5-13-33-37-42 .
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 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$250,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP575061725 from the total cash
prize shared amongst ten lucky winners in this category.



YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!
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 pro gramme 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 European representative office in London, United kingdom, as indicated
in your play coupon and your prize of US$250,000.00 will be released to you
from our regional branch office AFRICA. We hope with part of your prize, you
will participate in our next year"s high stalkers for US$2.3 Million
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims agent,Agent Bill
Williams: agentbillwilliams@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. 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 pro gramme by non-participant or
unofficial personnel

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 25th of March, 2007, otherwise
all
funds will be forfeited. Congratulations once again on your winning!

BEST REGARDS
MR GEORGE LUKEMAN
(VICE PRESIDENT )

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT OUR CLAIMS AGENT AT :
agentbillwilliams@yahoo.com
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION

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