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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"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447024065818 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • allen_coles_2006@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WINNING RESULTS" <results2006_003@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:23:58 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION MAIL

FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN
INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY COPORATION...

 17  Queens ave., 2000 Sydney, Australia.

 

Date:21/10/2006
Ref: 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning Numbers (1) (2) (26) (30) (40) (21)

                AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

 

Attn: Winner,

 

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of
Australian International Lottery Programmes held on the 20th of October 2006 the Australian International Lottery programme.  Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses. Your E-mail ID was attached to ticket number; 675061725 9356460902 Serial Number 67749137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-9-23-35-46 bonus number 14, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You are here by have been approved a lump sum pay of USD$400,000.00
(FOUR HUNDRED  THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03.

YOU WON!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this programme
by some participants. All participants whereselected through a computer/mail 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. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by the United Nations(UN), as a global developement program.
Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in Amsterdam, Holland, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$400,000.00 will be released to you from our  any payment centre your batch number fall under, we have payment centers in United Kingdom, United States, and Africa, and your batch number will fall under any of the above.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.2 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact our claims agent:-
Mr ALLEN COLES:
allen_coles_2006@yahoo.com
+447024065818

 

To file for your claim Please quote your:
1:Date of draw..................?
2:Reference Number..............?
3:Batch Number..................?
4:Winning Number and............?
5:telephone number..............?
6:Name and Location.............?
Some can be found on the top-left corner of this
message. Also, you should give in your telephone number to help
locateyour 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 protocal to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participant or official personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 29th of Dec. 2006
otherwise all funds will be forfited. Congratulations
once again on your winning!

 

BEST REGARDS

 

 

Mrs ANNA MACHPERSON
Executive Co-ordinator
Australian Lottery Inc).

 

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
Simply contact our claims agent:-
Mr ALLEN COLES:
allen_coles_2006@yahoo.com

+447024065818

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT
TO DISQUALIFICATION

Copyright 2004-2006 Australian Lottery Prize Awards. All rights reserved.

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