419 scam: Asia International Lottery Award <asialottery@asia.com> Asia International Lottery Award

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- ",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)
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.
- infohitec@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Asia International Lottery Award <asialottery@asia.com>
Reply-To: infohitec@aim.com
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:00:01 -0200
Subject: Asia International Lottery Award

The Asia International Lottery Award
(Regional Office)
Blk B,2/1-3 Jln Ipoh
Kuala Lumpur,55003
Malaysia

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result in the just concluded annual final
draws of the ASIAN NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY programs. The online cyber
lotto draw was conducted from an exclusive list of 1,000,000(One
Million) e-mail
addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet,so no tickets were sold to enter for
the promotions.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one of two
winners in the category \\"A"\\ You have therefore been approved to claim the
sum of US$679,999,000 (Six Hundred And Seventy Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred And
Ninety-Nine United States Dollars Only) with the information below:

Ticket Number: 2747-3600-2010 188
Serial Number: 5368/02/10
Batch Number:CBSTA/7913/KL/AS
Reference Number:EAP/10/17/54/2010/KL

To file for your claims, you are to contact our appointed fiduciary agent for
the immediate processing and release of your winnings.

Mr Craig Emerson(Foreign Operations Manager),
Iso Hitec Securities
Company Email:infohitec@aim.com

You must contact the claim appointed agent quoting your winning numbers and
providing the informations below:

(1) Full Names.......................
(2) Contact Home/Office Address.............
(3) Country Of Origin................
(4) Winning Email.....................
(5) Mobile Telephone Contact.................
(6) Home/Office Telephone Contact............
(7) Marital Status.....................

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 participant
or unofficial personnel.Note: The Validity period of the winnings is for 20
working days other wise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed.

Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program.

Best Regards,

Fatimah Binti Usman,
Online Co-ordinator,
Asian National Lottery.

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