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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:
  • "22 garden close, stamford" (address often used in fake lottery scams)
• 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.
  • aussie_draws@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: gloinfo@mchsi.com (AUSSIE LOTTERY UK)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:18:47 +0000
Subject: Aussie rewards you!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded,
final draws held on (10th January, 2007) by Aussie lottery Uk in
conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your
email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won 1000,000.00{One Million
Great Britain Pounds}each in the THE
AUSSIE PROMOTION 2007 which was released today 31th August, 2007 and
your email was attached to ticket number
(AT-040SB06-03) and Batch number (652-662)
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses

from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals
and
corporate bodiespicked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet by the board of director.

You are required to fill the form below for claims procedures and
return to your fudicary agent without delay.

1. Full name..............
2. Sex..............
3. Country................
4. State.............
5. Contact Address........
6. Telephone Number.......

Email: aussie_draws@hotmail.com
Agent name: Mr Harry Hector
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs,PE9 2YP,London United Kingdom


Yours Sincerely,
Managment



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