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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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.
  • agent.lott@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Lottery Promotion" <lottpro1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:49:12 +0100
Subject: !!! CONGARTULATION YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY !!!

FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, 

YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS 

INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA  

UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132-133 PARK HURST

BALFOUR UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001 

GAUTENG.

 

INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PRIZE RELEASE CENTRE WINNING ANNOUNCED TODAY 16/02/2007 Ref: 885061755, Batch: 4058490933/188 WINNING NUMBER: (16) (20) (21) (22) (24) (34) (6).

     

YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners.You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of (250,000,00) (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING)in cash credit file. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your name falls within our  representative office in SOUTH AFRICA. as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) will be released to you from our paying banks. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our Middle of the year high stakes for POUNDS STERLIN 1.3 Billion international draw. How to claim your prize Simply contact our fiduciary agents, Dr. EBONIE EVA OR MIS ANIA BACCA, EMAIL ADDRESS(agent.lott@yahoo.com) to file for your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top of this notification as well as the below listed informations: FULL NAMES: CONTACT ADDRESS: TELEPHONE/FAX: WINNING NUMBER: For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarrante d taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnin gs MUST be claimed before the 30th of FEBRUARY 2007 otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENTS DR. EBONIE EVA OR MIS ANIA BACCA EMAIL CONTACT:agent.lott@yahoo.com TELL: 27-781-570-289 REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA   UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132-133 PARK HURST BALFOUR UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001 GAUTENG. YOU ARE ADVICE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMING AGENTS IMMEDIATELY. ANY BREACH OFCONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.FORWARD YOUR WINNING NUMBERS, YOUR FULL NAME, YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS ANDYOUR FULL ADDRESS. KIND REGARDS, MRS HERLEY JAMES                               MRS HERLEY JAMES                                                       (Public Relations Officer.)

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