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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" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • agentmarksmith01@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3aagentmarksmith01@yahoo.com
  • 3bagentmarksmith01@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "AUSTRALIA LOTTO" <austraoffice29@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 02:55:39 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU HAVE WON($500,000.00 DOLLARS)


*FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY CORPORATION.

Date: 24/05/2008
Ref: 575061/03
Batch:8056490902/188
Winning Numbers 1 2 26 30 40 21

AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE

Attn:

We are pleased to inform you of the lottery result winners of Australian
International Lottery Programmes held on the 24th MAY 2008,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.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, you are advised to keep your
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
participants where selected through a computer/mailballoting system drawn
from
Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United
States,
Asia, Europe,Middle East, Africaand 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 and also the Australian Government 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 our regional
branch office in LONDON. We hope with part of your prize,you will
participate
in our end of year high stakes for US$5.4 Million international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM SIMPLY CONTACT YOUR REGIONAL CLAIMS AGENT.
*************************************************************************
SIMPLY CONTACT MR. MARTIN CALFORD YOUR CLAIMS AGENT EASILY ON HIS MOBILE AND
ALSO FILL AND SUBMIT THE WINNERS FORM BELOW VIA EMAIL,AS SOON AS YOU RECIEVE
THIS WINNING NOTIFICATION TO VALIDATE YOUR FILE FOR PAYMENT.
MR MARTIN CALFORD


EMAIL:agentmarksmith01@yahoo.com <EMAIL%3Aagentmarksmith01@yahoo.com>

*************************************************************************
Endeavour to contact him with the following informations:

1. Full Names :...................................
2. Contact Address :...........................
3. Telephone Number :.........................
4. Age :............................................
5. Sex :............................................
6. Nationality :...................................
7.Bank Name..........................................
8.Account Name....................................
9.Bank Account Number........................
10.Bank Address................................
11. Occupation :..................................
12.State/Province:..............................
13. Winning information i,e ticket number, batch number, reference
number, serial number e.t.c. :

To file for your
claim
.Please quote Amount Won,Date of draw,Reference Number,
Batch Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the top-left corner
of
this message. Also,
should give in your telephone number to help locate your file easily.
You For security reasons,we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public 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 before the 31st MAY 2008,otherwiseall
funds
will be forfeited. Congratulations once again on your winning .

BEST REGARDS
MARY CROWN (MRS)
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
AT:agentmarksmith01@yahoo.com<AT%3Aagentmarksmith01@yahoo.com>`.


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

CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU HAVE WON($500,000.00 DOLLARS)
Dont reply this email reply to your region claim agent at
email;agentmarksmith01@yahoo.com <email%3Bagentmarksmith01@yahoo.com>
*

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