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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:
  • "australian lottery" (can only win this lottery if you bought a ticket)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united state 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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • aufoundations001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "AUSTRALIAN ONLINE LOTTERY" <alicehenrys6@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aufoundations001@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:08:01 +0100
Subject: RE:CONGRATULATIONS AWARD NOTIFICATION


FROM: THE DISK OF THE MANAGEMENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF N: EGS/475061725
BATCH N:05/763638/IPD
RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
CONGRATULATIONS!

National Australian Lottery Incorporated wishes to inform you the results
of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Australia held
on 30th July 2008. Your email account have been picked as a winner of
$1,000,000.00usd} ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on 11th August, 2008. and your email
address attached in the A Category. All email addresses were selected
through a computer ballot system in which your email address was selected as
one of the lucky winners. Your lucky number is:- .and bonus ball number .Be
advised to keep your winning information confidential {VERY SECRET} until
your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this
program by fraudulent and scampers.

All winning must be claimed not later than 31st September, 2008. After this
date all unclaimed funds will be returned to Australia as unclaimed. Please
note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember
to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

You are therefore advised to contact your claim OFFICER in our regional
branch in LONDON,


HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE;


Simply contact our regional office
Contact Person,DR MARK JONES email....( aufoundations001@hotmail.com )
by filling this form below and send it to him
to file for your claim .
DR MARK JONES,
email....(aufoundations001@hotmail.com)


LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT.



FULLNAME...........................................
DATE OF BIRTH.................................
ADDRESS.................................................
SEX........................
AGE................................
NATIONALITY.....................................
OCCUPATION.....................................
TELEPHONE.....................................
EMAIL............................................
DATE............................................
SIGNATURE.....................................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO...........APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account
users program.

Yours in service,

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Alice Henry
Executive(Australian Lottery Inc).



Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn
Van
Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams
(Director
International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr.
Michael
Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
VICE PRESIDENT

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