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

Fraud email example:

From: australia lottery <youhavewon222@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:25:52 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL HAVE WON ($350,000.00)




South AustraliaLotteries5th Floor East, Commonwealth Centre55 Currie Street, Adelaide SA 5000,South Australia.







Date12/10/2007Ref: 475061725Batch No: 7056490902/133Winning No: GB701/LPRCInsurance No: FLS 433/453L/ALP

Dear Winner Of The Year,
CONGRATULATIONS !
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 12th Oct, 2007 from the Australian International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number; 7458222754, batch number 7056490902/133. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-17-43-47-52 bonusnumber 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US$350,000.00 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/MW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.We hope 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 MIKE HOUSTON at (agent_m_houston@yahoo.com) to file for your claim. Please quote your Date of draw,reference, batch and winning numbers which can be found on the top left corner of this notification 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 programmed by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before the 20th November, 2007; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charitable homes. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT : (agent_m_houston@yahoo.com) ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION.
Congratulations once again.Yours in service,

Dr. Mrs. Andreala C. KestarutgerPromotion ManagerAussie Lotto Lottery Inc,South Australia.
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