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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:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "international lottery programme"
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Walker Shawn" <australian.lwalker@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: australianlott_walker@yahoo.com.au
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:38:39 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION: Lucky Winner,



We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Australian
International Lottery Programmes held on the 22nd of January 2007 from the
Australian International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an
electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name 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 US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash prize
shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!
MRS ROSE ADAMS MRS CARO SMITH Due to disqualification and mistaken of
identity you are advised to keep 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 participant were selected
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 a
conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have
operational base. 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$500,000.00 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with part of your prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$2.3 Billion
international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: To file for your claim . Please
quote your Date of draw,Reference Number, Batch Number and Winning Number,
which can be found on the top-left corner of this message. Also, you should
give in your telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security
reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from
the public to avoid mistaking of identity until your claim is processed and
your prize has been released to you and also to the public. 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,

(ALL WINNINGS MUST BE CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE A STIPULATED DATE OF 20TH
DECEMBER 2007) otherwise all funds will be forfited.

Congratulations once again on your winning!

BEST REGARDS
Mr. Shawn Walker
(LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR)

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

MRS GRACE KARIMU
EXECUTIVE CO-ORDINATOR
(AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INC)

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