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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • mr_johnson_smith007@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC <websender_777777@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:29:17 +0000
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL ID HAS EMRGED AS A WINNER OF $450,000.00USD
(CONTACTYOUR AGENTIMMEDIATELY)



FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONALPROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIANINTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY COPORATION;
Date:28/08/2007 Ref: 575061 Batch:8056490902188
Winning Numbers 1 13 26 34 44 48
AWARD NOTIFICATION:
FINAL NOTICE
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the lottery resultwinners of Australian International Lottery Programmesheld on the 28TH of AUGUST 2007 from the AustralianInternational Lottery programme. Which is fully basedon an electronic selection of winners using theire-mail addresses.Your name was attached to ticketnumber; 6750617259356460902 Serial Number 67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows bonusnumber 14, which consequently won the lottery in thesecond category. You are here by have been approved alump sum pay of US$450,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTYTHOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW575061/04 from the total cash prize shared amongst tenlucky winners in this category.
YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you areadvised to keep your winning information confidentialuntil your claims has been processed and your moneyremitted to your nominated bank. This is part of oursecurity protocol to avoid double claims andunwarranted abuse of this programme by someparticipants. All participants where selected througha computer/mail balloting system drawn from Ninehundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,Africa and Oceania as part of our internationalpromotions program which is conducted annually. ThisLottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorateof some multinational companies and also theAustralian Government as part of their socialresponsibility to the citizens in the commmunitieswhere they have operational base. Further more yourdetails (e-mail address) falls within our Europeanrepresentative office in London, United Kingdon, asindicated in your play coupon and your prize ofUS$450,000.00 will be released to you from ourregional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with partof your prize, you will participate in our next year"shigh stakers for US$2.3 Million international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our claimsagent, MR SMITH: mr_johnson_smith007@yahoo.com To file for your claim .
Please quote your Date of draw,Reference Number, BatchNumber and Winning Number, which can be found on thetop-left corner of this message. Also, you should givein your telephone number to help locate your fileeasily. For security reasons, we advice all winners tokeep this information confidential from the publicuntil your claim is processed and your prize has beenreleased to you and also to the public. This is partof our security protocol to avoid double claiming andunwarranted taking advantage of this programme bynon-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 5TH ofSEPTEMBER 2007, otherwise all funds will be forfited.
Congratulations once again on yourwinning!
BEST REGARDS
MR JOHN STEVE(VICE PRESIDENT )
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT OUR CLAIMSAGENT AT : mr_johnson_smith007@yahoo.com
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERSWILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION
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