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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:
  • "flash fortune lottery"
• 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.
  • +27839406792 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: david zuma <davidzuma101@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations. Confirmation of your lottery winning notification


Dear Amarjit Singh,

I am in receipt of your Winning Notification regarding to your prize money of Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United States Dollars Only.(U$820,000,00.) won in the just concluded computer draws of the Flash Fortune Lottery. Be informed that you won the money and happens to be one of the lucky winners. Congratulations once again.

However, I wish to inform you that all arrangements have been finally concluded to affect the transfer of your winnings to your account details once we finish the verification exercise. Do note that we recently took delivery of the total winnings from our sponsors. .

The funds have been fully insured by this organization and deposited with our paying bankers FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. (F.N.B.) from where the funds will be transferred.

You are therefore advised as a matter of urgency to provide us with the following information’s. This is to enable me complete your application form for claims and for onward processing, clearance and issue same to our paying bankers for them to make the necessary transfer to your account details.

1: YOUR FULL RESIDENTIAL OR OFFICE ADDRESS
2; OCCUPATION.
3; YOUR CONTACT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
4:THE BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFERED.
5. A SCANED COPY OF YOUR NATIONAL I.D. OR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY.
6.AGE
7. FULL NAME
8.GENDER
Once we get this details, we shall process your winnings and advise the bank to effect remittance. Your lottery winning certificate will be send to you as a further proof of your winnings and to clear your doubts.

Congratulations,

Regards,

DAVID ZUMA (Claim Agent, Flash Fortune Lottery.)
N.B. Call me with my hotline telephone number +27 839 406 792





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