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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")
• 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.
  • revjamesbrown4claims@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY" <au_intl206@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:24:41 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!! YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS WON!!

AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC,
6123 COOL STREET ROAD
SOMEWHEREVALUE AX34587,
AUSTRALIA.
Date:9th/10/2007


Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!CONGRATULATIONS!!CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released on the 9th of OCTOBER 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$200,000.00(TWO
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 a conglomorate of some multinational
companies as part of 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$200,000.00 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,REV FR JAMES BROWN is to file for your
claim.Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of
the 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 OCTOBER, 2007; otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated
to charity organisations.


PLEASE CONTACT REV FR JAMES BROWN, so that he will
tell you on how you will receive your winning prize.
Name: REV FR JAMES BROWN
Email: revjamesbrown4claims@gmail.com
Congratulations once again on your win!!!

Dr George Smith
Online President for
AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC.

PLEASE 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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