419 scam: Australia Lottery Award 2014 <no_replytoold@live.com> Your E-mail Address Has Won $950.000.00USD Australia Lottery Award!

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
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.
- benjackson1978@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Australia Lottery Award 2014 <no_replytoold@live.com>
Reply-To: benjackson1978@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:03:01 +0000
Subject: Your E-mail Address Has Won $950.000.00USD Australia Lottery Award!

Corporate Headquarters
Australia Lottery Center
197 Blackfairs Road SE1
8NJ London - United Kingdom

Congratulations!

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are delighted to inform you that your email address has won the sum of $950,000.00USD from the Australia Lottery Award 2014.

The online Australia Lottery Award 2014 Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of E-mail addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all E-mail addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your E-mail address emerged as one of the Ten (10) lucky winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:

Ref Number: ASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: HGL-14/28/0046
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

For claim, Fill in the needed information and also send code "381060" immediately to Mr. Ben Albert Jackson AT: benjackson1978@gmail.com for payment.

NAME.......EMAIL ADDRESS........OCCUPATION.........YOUR FULL
ADDRESS..........NATIONALITY.......MOBILE/PHONE.........SEX.........AGE........

NOTE: For security reasons, we advised that winners should keep this
information STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL from public until your claim has been
processed and your prize money remitted to your designated bank.

This is part of our precautionary measures to avoid double claims and/or
impersonation.

Accept our hearty congratulations once more!

Mrs. Rose Hill
Head Publicity
Australian Lotto Inc

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