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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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • mlclaims.kennedywalter@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Metro Lottery Inc." <elaine.mlinc7@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:27:26 -0400
Subject: LUCKY WINNER - CONTACT CLAIMS AGENT (CONGRATULATIONS)

Metropolitan Lottery Inc.
6123 Pitte Street,
Sydney 34587, Australia.
Date 1/11/2006

Ref No: 475061725
Batch No:705649/188
Winning No: GB8101/LP.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your Winning prize release on the 30th
October 2006 draw of the Metropolitan International Lottery programme. Which
is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses from some sites. Your email address was attached to ticket number;
17212,serial number 7741137002 . This batch draws the lucky numbers as
follows 8382-42bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the
second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum payment of US$600,000.00 (SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credited to file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02 from
the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected through a computer 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 is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of multinational
companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
commmunities where they have operational bases. Further more your details
(e-mail address) fall within our African Representative office as indicated
in your play coupon and your prize of US$600,000.00 will be released to you
from the regional branch office in Nigeria.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR AUSTRALIAN WINNING PRIZE :
Simply Contact Our Fiducial Agent, Rev. Kennedy Walter, with email address(
mlclaims.kennedywalter@yahoo.com) to file in for your claim by filling out
the form below.

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 advise 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-participants or impersonators . Note, all winnings MUST be claimed
before the 20th of November 2006; otherwise all floating funds will be
returned as unclaimed

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!.

Yours Sincerely,

Elaine Ferguson,
(Lottery Co-ordinator).

AFTER FILLING THE FORM SEND IT TO THE AGENT FOR VERIFICATION AND PAYMENT
APPROVAL.

FULL NAME..........................................

BIRTH DATE........................................

ADDRESS...........................................

SEX.........................AGE...................

NATIONALITY.......................................

OCCUPATION........................................

TELEPHONE.........................................

EMAIL.............................................

DATE..............................................

REF NO............................................

WINNING NO........................................

BATCH NO..........................................

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT(
mlclaims.kennedywalter@yahoo.com )

*ANY BREACH OF THE ABOVE LOTTERY RULES ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL
RENDER YOUR WINNING NULL AND RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.*

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