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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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)
  • "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.
  • vic_maris@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: floxy javis <javisfloxy@yahoo.ca>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:36:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!!




































Ref:575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no:KB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!


Dear Winner,
=A0 We are delighted to inform you of your prize
release on the 20th September, 2008 from
the
Australian International Lottery programme. Which is
fully base d
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.


=A0 You here by have
been
approved a lump sum pay of
US$1000,000.00 (ONE
MILLION 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=20
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.

=A0 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 yo ur play coupon and
your prize of US$1000,000.00 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 this year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.

=A0 HOW TO CLAIM YOUR

PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial
agent,
=A0 MR.< /SPAN>
VICTOR MARIS
EMAIL::
vic_maris@yahoo.com


=A0 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-partic ipant or unofficial
personnel.
=A0 Note, Any breach o
f=20
confidentiality will lead to
disqualification of you wining prize ,all winnings
must be claimed before 20th October, 2008 otherwise
all
funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually
donated to charity.


Congratulations once again on your winning!

=A0 (CO-ODINATOER)
.
NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE TO THIS OFFICE,CONTACT
THE CLAIMS AGENT FOR YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

THANKS:
MANAGEMENT, AUSTRALIA LOTTO
LOTTERY INC.


















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