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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • ben_klinger217@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: DAVID HOLMES <dholmes_113@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 13:01:28 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!! YOUR E-MAIL CONTACT HAS WON FOR YOU.


GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC. THIS IS REGISTERED UNDER
THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF Registration Z720633X.
Head Office:
6123 Cool street road,
Somewhere value ax34587
Melbornue,
Australia.

AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC.
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD
PRESENTATION CENTER:AUSTRALIA
DATE:04/08/2007.
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 4th August, 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 of
US$500,000.00(DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW
47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$4,000,000.00(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,
MR BENSON KLINGER
AT ben_klinger217@yahoo.com To file for
your claim .
Please quote your
full name
reference number:
batch number:
winning number:
phone number:
nationality:
Sex:

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
15th August 2007.
Otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and
eventually donate to charity .

Congratulations, once more from the entire
Management and Staff of AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY Cooperation
to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for
being part of this promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. David Holmes (co-ordinator).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT: ben_klinger217@yahoo.com

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


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