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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim 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.
  • yahoo.comagentmarkanders@yahoo.com.au

Fraud email example:

From: AUSTRALIA LOTTO INC <carolj_aus0008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <agentmarkander_aus@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:39:07 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL HAS WON A LOTTERY PRICE OF $450
000.00 USD






AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INT'L INC.
OFFICE OF THE CORDINATOR (MRS. CAROL JONES)
HEAD OFFICE; 6123 COOL STREET ROAD.SOMEWHEREVULLE,AX34587,
AUSTRALIA.






DATE:30/07/2007.REF NO: 65423171BATCH NO: 70564943902/188WINNER'S NO: GB2701/LPRC
We are delighted to inform you of your prize released on the MONDAY 30th JULY 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 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 of US$450,000.00(DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$450,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst ten lucky winners in this category. Also Joint with the winning is a complementary Issue of the new 2006 BMW 760 4DR LIMITED EDITION. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Australia,North and South America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communitties 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 FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS (US$450,000.00USD), will be released to you from this regional branch office ,Nigeria in Africa. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
To file for your claim, please contact our claim fiduciary agent,DR MARK ANDERSON , through his official email address, with correctly filled copy of the LOTTERY WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM &n bsp;OF PAYMENT below.AGENT'S CONTACTagentmarkander_aus@yahoo.comagentmarkanders@yahoo.com.au







WINNER'S VERIFICATION FORM


WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA



First Name.: *



Middle Name.:


Last Name.: *




Gender.: MaleFemale




Month Of Birth.: MonthJanuaryFebuaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

Day: Day123456789101112131415161819202122232425262728293031

Year:




Marital Status.: SingleMarriedDivorced


Nationality.: *


Religion.:


Occupation.:


YOUR FULL BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATIONBANK ACCOUNT NUMBER *BANK ACCOUNT HOLDERS NAME *BANK NAME *BANK BRANCH *


Address 1.: *


Address 2.:


City.: *


State/Province.: *


Zip Code.: &n bsp; *




Mobile phone No.: *


House Phone No.: *


Fax No.:


Email Address.: * eg. username@domainname.com< TR>




WINNING INFORMATIO N


Batch Number.: *


Serial Number.: *


Refrence Number.: *




This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: No:


Goodluck from me and members of staff of the AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMO INC.NOTE:dont reply to this email address, simply contact your claim agent 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,For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claimis processed and your prize released to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donate to charity . Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMO INC. to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery programme. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Carol Jones (co-ordinator) ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMO INC., BREACH OF CONFIDENTAILITY TO AVIOD DOUBLE CLAIMING OF FUND.

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