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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")
• 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.
  • rvsmith_2006@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "winners notification result" <h.j.k.k._6@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:16:29 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION

AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
Date:4/4/2007
Ref:4758961725
Batch:ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no:FGNGB2701/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS...........



Dear Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the of 4th APRIL -2007 from the Australian
International Lottery programme.Which is fully bank 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 513-33-37-42
bonus number17,which consequently won the lottery in the second
category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay
of US$200,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in
cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total
cash prize of US$4.8million 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 States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, (Africa Nigeria
claiming office)and Oceania
aspart of our international promotions program which
is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and
sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational
companies as part of their social responsibility to
the citizens in the commmunities
where they have operational base. Further more your
details(e-maiaddress) falls within our
European representative office in France,Spain, as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US$200000,.00USD, will be released to you from this
regional branch office in Africa. 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 TOCLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial
agent,REVEREND FATHER SAMSMITH HIS EMAIL ADDRESS
IS(rvsmith_2006@myway.com) to filefor 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 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 under two weeks of
recieving this message otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity Congratulations once again on your
winnings!!!(co-ordinator) PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS
EMAIL.AND CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT OF
CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT
TO DISQUALIFICATION. THIS IS YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
EMAIL:REVEREND FATHER SAMSMITH : EMAIL ADDRESS
(rvsmith_2006@myway.com)

BEST REGARD,
MRS SUSAN CONSOLE
LOTTERY DIRECTOR

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