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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 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:
  • "hundred thousand us dollars" (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!
• 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.
  • farah_hashemia1@excite.com
  • nom.nom@laposte.net

Fraud email example:

From: "farah.hashemi" <farah.hashemi@laposte.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:45:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!


AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.

FROM:THE DESK OF THE CO-ORDINATOR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY COPORATION
Date:27/2/2008
Ref: 7458222754
Batch: 905534213/255

Winning NumbersXB3701LNRC



AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE
Attn: Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Australian International Lottery Programmes held on, 26th of Feb, 2008 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; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number 67749137002.
This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows bonus number 14, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You are here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash prize shared amongst Eight lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred million E-mail addresses from Canada,Australia,United States, Asia,Europe,Middle East,Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions programe which is conducted Annually.This lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorates of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.Further more your details (e-mail address)fall within Europe representative office as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS)will be released to you from this regional brach office in UNITED KINGDOM.

Sincerely,
MRS.F.HASHEMI Online co-ordinator for
AUSTRALIAN LOTTO INC.


NOTE: YOU MUST CONTACT YOUR ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR FOR CLAIMS WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS(farah_hashemia1@excite.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 and also to the public. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Note that all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME (ON OR BEFORE 30 WORKING DAYS); otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Yours in service,





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