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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:
  • "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 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.
  • johnaluh@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ray Uduma <dr_ruduma2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <dr_ruduma2@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:14:46 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


ATTENTION,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the
11TH of August 2007, from the Australian International Lottery
programme,which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address was
attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102 and serial number 7741134002.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus
number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$1.5,000.000( ONE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotion program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by aconglomorate of some
multinational companies as partof their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in Amsterdam,Holland as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of US$1.5,000.000. will be released to you from
this regional branch office in NIGERIA.

We hope that 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 JOHN ALUH. 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 programme by
non-participants or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 30th of September 2007;
otherwise all funds will be returned asUnclaimed and eventually donated to charity organisations.

PLEASE CONTACT MR JOHN ALUH,so that he will tell you of how you will
receive your winning prize.

Name: MR JOHN ALUH
Email:johnaluh@yahoo.com
Phone:00234-7034-8659-44.

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQAULIFIED.

Congratulations once again on your winning!!!

Best Regards
Mr Ray Uduma.
(co-ordinator)

PEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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