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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.
  • +27733475363 (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.
  • northgateclaimsagent@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: northgatelotto2006@yahoo.de
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:32:07 -0800
Subject: NOTIFICATION

NORTH GATE FOUNDATION
POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GAME 2006,
Date: 31ST-JAN-2006
REF NO: MLF/06/6654/LWG

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSULTATION PRIZE NOTICE

The North Gate Foundation international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, UTHINGO LOTTERIES SOUTH AFRICA officially brings to your
notice, the final draw result of the 31ST JANUARY-2006 POWERBALL LOTTO-wheel
E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office
complex in Johannesburg.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out
prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation
seeks to encourage the use of the Internet for academic and business
pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theatre, art and literary
projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as
well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to
congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was
selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize winners.

Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL242-6914-20 and was
selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the
50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID
was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by
our partner international email provider companies. You have won a
consultation cash prize of US $1.500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars) only. THE NORTH GATE FOUNDATION has approved a payout of
your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by
the official Payment Agency. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to
you complete assistance and provide additional information and
processes for the claims of your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU
accredited claims officer

MR.DUMASI GODWIN
TEL:+27-73-347-5363
FAX: +27-73-476-2720
E-mail:northgateclaimsagent@yahoo.de

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL
LOTTO-wheel Email-games end of year sweepstakes special.

Regards,

Mr Maxwell Vilagazi
NORTH GATE FOUNDATION

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and
regulations,this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky
consultation prize Winners.This notification also contains information
that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or
otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. Any breach of confidentiality
on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do
not reply to this mail. Rather, contact your claims officer whose
credentials are listed above. All staff of NORTH GATE FOUNDATION and
members of their family as well as South Africans of all ages are barred
from this lottery.
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