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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)
  • "million 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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • austinconnor@canada.com

Fraud email example:

From: Ontario Corp <ontario_corp38@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations! you have won!!!


From: Ms. Lurie Segal

International Canada Lottery/Ontario 49 Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw
Ontario Lottery Corporation
Consumer Affairs
70 Foster Drive, Suite 800, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, P6A 6V2

Your Winning Reference Number is: IMP/73253CA/2007 and Batch Number: 642376/CA/2007.



WINNING NOTIFICATION

KEEP THIS EMAIL IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION.

The Canadian Government sponsors this lottery for the promotion of the 2010 Soccer World cup to be hosted in South Africa .

We happily announce to you the draw of the Special Global 2010 World Cup Promotional Draw held on the Wed April 2,2008 in Essex United Kingdom and Ontario Canada. Your e-mail address attached to REF N; IMP/73253CA, with Batch Number:642376/CA/2008 drew the winning numbers 9,17,25,29,42,43 bonus- 4 for Ontario 49 Lotto under the choice of the lottery in the 2nd category of bi-weekly six.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars )

This is from a total cash prize of US $18,100,000.00 Million dollars, shared amongst the first One Hundred and-thirty (130) lucky winners in this category Worldwide. Because this particular draw was selected to promote the 2010 World Cup to be hosted in South Africa hence your winning information must be kept to enable you participate in our subsequent draws which will see 500 participants travelling on an all expense paid trip to South Africa for the Soccer World Cup 2010.

In view of this, your US$800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by following the directives of the claim agent. Our Canadian agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,000 companies and personal e-mails. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous elements. Please be warned!
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 $800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand United States dollars) 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 .


THE CLAIM AGENT CONTACTS ARE BELOW

Processing Manager: Mr. Austin Connor


Email: austinconnor@canada.com

Phone: +1 786 375-8115

Note; your winning fund has been officially insured on your name(EMAIL ADDRESS) 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.

Yours Sincerely,

Ms. Lurie Segal

Lurie_segal@ontario-corp.com


NOTE To confirm that you have the winning number for the Wed April 2,2008 draw, visit: http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=8 , ON-Ontario-49-lottery-results.html confirm under Ontario 49.

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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