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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "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 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.
  • +27837347092 (South Africa, 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.
  • baloyifanaa@hotmail.com
  • lottogloballottery@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "lotto draw" <lottodraw1004@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: baloyifanaa@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:16:54 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATION FROM LOTTERY COMPANY

CANADA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Private Bag X50, Auckland Park, 2006
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: +27 83-734-7092

Congratulations!
The International Mega Promotion team is proud to inform you that you have
won USD 930,000.00 Why you have won Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky
Addresses who have won in the weekly Promotion.
See below how to claim your prize.
Details on the Winnings
Your Winning Reference Number is: IMP/73253ZA/2005 Batch Number:
642376/ZA/2005.
I wish to Congratulate you on your victory, you are a lucky person to have
won this lottery. Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter
from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from
the web from which winners are selected.
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the
processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the Your
winning price is to the tune of 930 Thousand dollar.
1. Full names.
2. Phone number.
3. Fax number.
4. Occupation.
5. Sex.
6. Age.
7. Country.
8)country of resident
Remember, you must contact your claim agent Mr Baloyi,Call him and claim
your prize after calling him send your refrence and batch number and all the
above informations to his email address and call him to let him know that
you have contacted him through email.
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
for claiming of your prize and remember to quote your reference and Batch
Number for easy processing of your prize. That's it!

Processing Manager: Mr. Fana Baloyi
Email: baloyifanaa@hotmail.com
Email: lottogloballottery@yahoo.com

Tel : +27 83-734-7092
Congratulations again and have a lot of fun. The International Mega
Promotion team



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