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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:
  • "australian lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• 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")
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • harrybenson_lottery@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: national lotto <rosehenry_11@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:28:07 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!! YOU HAVE WON $900,000.00 USD(AUSTRALIAN CASH
OUT LOTTERY 2007 PROGRAM)


ASH-OUT LOTTO BV CASH-OUT PLAZA, SUITE 1102A AMSTERDAM ZUID-OOST AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT. DATE:05th 0f Sept 2007 Dear Lucky Winner, We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of AUSTRALIAN CASH-OUT LOTTO BV international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information: Ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 Batch:05/763638/IPD Winning no: 11 13 26 34 44 48 Ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number Ball number 11Ball number 13Ball number 26Ball number 34Ball number 44 Ball number 48Bonus Ball number 2 You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of $900,000.00 Dollars (Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars Only) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the informationbelow: One of the logos of Microsoft Windows, the Company's best-known product. To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent; PERSON IN CHARGE (MR HARRY BENSON CLAIM AGENT) Email address: harrybenson_lottery@yahoo.com Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the age of 17 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Please note; You are hereby advice to send the asigned fudiciray Agent details below for Processing of your Claims; (1.) FULL NAME ..................................................... (2.) FULL ADDRESS .................................................. (3).NATIONALITY. ..................................................... (4) AGE...................................................................... (5) OCCUPATION........................................................ (6)TELEPHONE NUMBER........................................... (7) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION........................ (8) SEX....................................................................... (9) TOTAL AMOUNT WON.......................................... (10) MARITAL STATUS ............................................... (11)EMAIL ADDRES................................................. (12)YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER................................. scan a copy of your id or international passport and send together with this payment form to the claim agent that will enable him to processing your winning prize easy. contact to this confidential email account: you are advice to contact to our claim agent with this EMAIL ADDRESS: harrybenson_lottery@yahoo.com ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Yours in service, Mrs. ROSE HENRY (Co-coordinator). (australian Lottery Inc). Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).

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