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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.
• 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.
  • +2348068241955 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • revmarkspencerist@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Australian Lotto Lottery" <william_standfort101@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:48:42 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS.

Ref : GB8701/LPRC
Batch : 7056490902/188
Winning no: 475061725


CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Lucky Winner ,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
for the month of March,2007 from the Australian
International Lottery Pro gramme. Which is fully based
on an Electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses your name was attached to ticket
number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number
7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as
follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which
consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: A2000 SO/AB/CI/049/01 from the total
cash prize of US$4,000,000.00 shared amongst eight
lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn form 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
conglomerate of some multinational companies as part
of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details (e-mail address) fall within
our African Representative office in Nigeria, West
Africa, 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 New year high stakes for US$1.3
Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial
agent in Nigeria,
Contact Name: Rev.Mark Spencer
Email:revmarkspencerist@yahoo.com
and his number is +234-8068241955.

To file for your claim. 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 advice 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 programmed by non-participant or unofficial
personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before this month
runs out. otherwise all funds will be returned as
unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards,
Carol Smith (co-coordinator)

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