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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

Fraud email example:

From: MR MIKE MILLER <aulottointercompany@auintercompany.au>
Reply-To: mrpatrickthoms@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:22:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Hello


Your Ref: 763KKU/021
Lotto No: 863469393/188
Winning no: AULOTTO/2115/LPRC

AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY COMPANY
6123 VICTORIA ROAD.
MELBOURNE AX34587
AUSTRALIA
DATE:APRIL/2010


CONGRATULATIONS ....................

Dear Internet user.

We are happy to announce that the draw for the Lottery international programs in Australia, held early this month, which is based on a full selection of winners using their e-mail address is out.

This line drawing was made by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 email addresses of individuals and legal persons, prepared by a team of advanced automated random search of the Internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email
addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for
representation and privacy. Your email address have been approved a lump sum of $ 900,000.00 (nine hundred thousand dollars) in the number of cash credit reference: ILP / HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of $ 4.8million shared among eight lucky winners in this category.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
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You are advised to contact the fiduciary agent assigned to your case with the email below with your reference number and winning ticket number as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate the file easily.

Claims Center representative of Africa
MR PATRICK THOMAS
E-mail: mrpatrickthoms@aol.com
mrpatrickthoms@gmail.com
telephone:+2348037602902
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He shall immediately commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund.

Congratulations once again!

MR MIKE MILLER
CO-ORDINATOR
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY





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