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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:

• 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)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Australian Lotto incorporated program ."
<australia.result.draws1945@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:12:08 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!!!(You Have Won Lottery Prize Fund US$450,000.00).

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


CONGRATULATIONS

YOUR EMAIL IS ONE OF THE EMAILS THAT WON THIS MONTH
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY; YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO
BE PART OF THIS DRAW OF LOTTERY. IT IS BY RANDOM
SELECTION OF SOME EMAILS, WHICH YOUR EMAIL IS ONE OF
THE WINNERS.


DATE:08/03/2007
REF NUMBER:475061725
BATCHNUMBER:7056490902/188
WINNING NUMBER:GB8701/LPRC


AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

Dear Sir/Madam,
WINNER NO 5,

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result
winners of South Australian International Lottery
Programmers held on 8th March 2007 from the Australian
International Lottery programmed. Which is fully based
on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses. Your name was attached to ticket
number; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number
67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as
follows 2-9-23-35-46 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$450,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTH THOUSAND US
DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 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 programmed 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 Amsterdam, Holland, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US$450,000.00 will be released to you from our
regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with part
of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.5 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claims
agent, REV FATHER KELVIN JERRY
Email: kelvin_representaive@walla.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 programmed by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 30th of
March 2007 otherwise all funds will be forfeited.
Congratulations once again on your winning!

MRS ROSE ADAMS MRS CARO WILLIAM SCOT
(Co-Ordinator) (Secretary)

BEST REGARDS
GEORGE WILSON,
(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR).

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS
WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION AND PLEASE DO NOT
REPLY THIS MAIL.YOU MUST CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT
REV FATHER KELVIN JERRY
Email: kelvin_representaive@walla.com


Copyright 1985-2007 South Australian International Lottery
Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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