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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:
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • alfredalijones.australialottery1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SHELLEY JOHN <shelleymervinjohn2001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <alfredalijones.australialottery1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:02:30 +0100
Subject: Congratulation you have won !!!



Date:17/11/2007
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS !

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 17th of November 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; 575061725 8056490902 serial number 6741137002
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
4-13-33-37-42bonus number 17,which consequently won
the lottery in the second category.

You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW 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
conglomorate of some multinational companies as part
of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
commmunities where they have operational base. Further
more 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$500,000.00 will be released to you from this
regional branch office in NIGERIA.
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,Mr Alfred Ali at NIGERIA.

(alfredalijones.australialottery1@yahoo.com)

to file for your claim .

Please quote your Date of draw,Reference Number, Batch
Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the
top-left corner of this message.
Also,you should give in your 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 has been released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again on your winning!

Best Regards,
Mrs Ester Green
(For co-ordinator)
24-25 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA 5034 Australia.
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