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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:
  • "australian lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • +2348038866102 (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.
  • australian_lott01@financier.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • agent.jwilliams@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC. <australian_lott01@financier.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:27:37 -0400
Subject: AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION LETTER/CONGRATULATION!!!



AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC. 6123 COOL STREET ROAD, SOMEWHEREVALUE AX34587,AUSTRALIA.Date: 30/07/2007,Ref: 475071725,Batch: 7057490902/188,Winning no: GB8701/LPRC.CONGRATULATIONS!!!Dear Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 27th July 2007 from the Australian International Lottery programmed.
This is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses. Your name was attached to ticket number; 47071725 07057490902, serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from nine hundred and ninety nine 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. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of USD $400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/07 from the total cash prize shared among eight lucky winners in this category. Australian Lottery winner's tourism visit is coming up next month in which we will provide all winners with free visa to Europe, free hotel accommodations, free air ticket and allot of gifts on their arrival. Once you receive your prize, do let us know so as to enable our International Attorney proceed to obtain the necessary documents for your visa to Europe, as more information's will soon be given to you. And do contact your Claim Agent Rev. John Williams where you have questions.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies that operate business with Financier, 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, Asia and African representative office in Nigeria, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$400,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA. The office that is in charge of transfer (www.financier.com) they will transfer it to Australian Lottery office that is in Nigeria were your financial Claim agent is, the fund will be transfer to an account in Nigeria, from there they will transfer it to your account. 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 account management center: australian_lott01@financier.com, (www.financier.com) so that they will transfer it to Australian Lottery office in Nigeria. 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, and also scan your international passport and send to your Claim Agent, for him to know that you are the rightful owner of the specified fund of USD $400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY) you should contact your Claiming Agent Mr. Rev. John Williams: agent.jwilliams@consultant.com 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 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 programmed by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 30th of September 2007; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winning.Please reply to this email.
Contact your Claims Agent immediately you receive this mail from account management center at: agent.jwilliams@consultant.com
Mr. John Williams
Phone: +234 803 886 6102

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your International Passport, full name, address and telephone number to help them know that you are the rightful beneficiary.

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

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