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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:
  • "international lottery programme" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",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.
  • revjmorris@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY <awooooooaus@msn.com>
Reply-To: <revjmorris@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:58:55 +0000
Subject: You have won the Australian lottery



Date:22/12/2008
Ref: 475061725
Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Lucky Winner, We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 12th, September, 2007 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; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in cash credit file
ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form 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.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate 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 our African representative office in, West Africa, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of US$500,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in Africa.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end ofyear high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial agent In Africa,

Rev John Morris at
(revjmorris@hotmail.com)

To file for your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and 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 released to you. 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, all winnings MUST be claimed before the 31th December 2008 otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and
eventually donated to charity Congratulations once again on your
winnings!!!

Full name:............

Contact address:..........

Occupation:..................

Nationality:..............

Date Birth:......................

Telephone number:.............

Best Regards
Anthonia Femi.

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