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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "into your nominated bank account" (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)
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: ontario corporation <ontario_corp16@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 04:08:15 -0200
Subject: you have won!!!




INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY CANADA
Ontario Lottery CorporationConsumer Affairs70 Foster Drive, Suite 800, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, P6A 6V2Attention: The Email Account Holder! Congratulations!The Canada International Lottery Mega Promotion team is proud to inform you that you have won USD$800,000.00, why you have won? Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky Addresses who have won in this Promotion. See below how to claim your prize. Details on the Winnings;Your Winning Reference Number is: IMP/73253CA/2007 and Batch Number: 642376/CA/2007.I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you are a lucky person to have won this lottery. Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web from which winners are selected. You are required to forward the following details to our claiming agent to help facilitate the processing of your claim, your winning price is to the tune of 800 Thousand dollar. This correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of Instructions relating to the payment of your lottery winnings.YOUR WINNING REFERENCE NUMBER AS LISTED ABOVE:BATCH NUMBER AS LISTED ABOVE:FULL NAME: OCCUPATION: COUNTRY: COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: AGE: GENDER: TELLEPHONE NO.: Remember, you must contact your claim agent Mr. Austin Connor, to claim your prize, send your reference and batch number and all the above informations to his email address and call him to let him know that you have contacted him through email.THE CLAIM AGENT CONTACTS ARE BELOWProcessing Manager: Mr. Austin ConnorEmail: austin_connor@hotmail.comPhone: +19737863889Note; your winning fund has officially insured on your name for safety and security reason to avoid any party/parties or organization have any access to tamper or touch your winning fund till it arrives into your nominated bank account of your choice in any part of the world. Therefore to file your claim, kindly contact our Claim Agent immediately you read this message for quick and urgent guidance for the procedures you have to follow to effect the release of your fund without further delay.Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotion program.Yours sincerely,MRS. STELLA BEAMER(ADMIN SEC)NB: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this email address. Contact your claim agent. (Mr. Austin Connor)
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