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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 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.
  • rev_divine_2001@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "JOHN MAN KAN" <johnman_kd18@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:35:18 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS LUCKY WINNER

AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000,
South Australia.

DATE: 19th January -2007.


CONGRATULATIONS LUCKY WINNER .....................
Dear,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 19th of January
-2007 from the AustralianInternational Lottery programme.Which is fully
based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses ,
your name was attached to ticketnumber 47061725 07056490902
serial number 7741137002.

This batch draws the luckynumbers as follows5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,
which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum ofUS$200,000.00(DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$16000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computerballoting system drawn from
Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from


canada,Australia, United state, Europe, Middle East,Africa and Oceania as
part of our international promotion program whichis conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their socialresponsibilities to the
citizens in the communitties where they haveoperational bases.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our African
representative office ,as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US$200,000,00USD, will be released to you from this regional branch
office in Nigeria:

We hope with part of your prize, you will participatein our end of year high
stakes for US$1.3 Billion internationaldraw.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN
CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:
Ref:

4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact our fiducial agent,
REV DIVINE UCHE
(rev_divine_2001@yahoo.com)
to file for your claim .

Please quote your reference,batch and winning numberswhich can befound on
the top left corner of this notification letter as well as your full name,
address and telephone number as to help us 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 bynon-participant or
unofficial personnels.

Note, all winnings MUST beclaimed on or before the 25th of January -2007.

otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity .

Congratulations, once more from the entire Managementand Staff of USTRALIA
LOTTO LOTTERY INC to all our lucky winnersthis year. Thank you for being
part of this promotional lottery program.


Yours Sincerely,

Carol Smith(co-ordinator).
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:
(rev_divine_2001@yahoo.com)

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

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