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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.

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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million united states dollars" (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.
  • marktha2000@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "global winners" <interlott41@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:18:59 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!

THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
2nd Floor SABC Universal Building
P.O. Box 91711, Auckland Park,
2006 Henley Road.
Johannesburg, South Africa.

Attenion:

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR LOTTERY WINNING:

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual fine
draws held on (10th Of March 2007) by Global Mega Lottery in Conjunction
with Reddot promotion.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 321 with
Serial number 964760 drew the winning: 06/08/10/19/30/42, Reference number
PT418904512, Batch number WB44009302, which subsequently won you the lottery
award in the category (B). Your name has therefore been approved to claim
the sum total of US$1,000,000.00(One million United States Dollars) in cash
credited to file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
US$20,000,000.00 (Twenty Million United States Dollars) shared amongst the
first 20 lucky winners in this category (B) world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery Booklet
representative office in South Africa as indicated in the play coupon. In
view of this, your US$1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars) would
be released to you through the assistance of our CLAIM AGENT in South
Africa. He will commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contact him.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw systems and extracted from over 100,000,000 companies and
individual email addresses. The Lottery Programmer took place to support HIV
Patients in Africa. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money
is remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measures to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.

Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our Claim
Agent with your Reference and Batch numbers on the following information
below:

CLAIM AGENT: MR MARK THAMBO
TEL/FAX: +27-11 507 6238
EMAIL ADDRESS: marktha2000@yahoo.com
OFFICE ADDRESS: 4TH FLOOR FIDELITY HOUSE BRYANSTON JOHANNESBURG 2030, SOUTH
AFRICA

Immediately you received this message because you stand a risk of loosing
the prize if you fail to claim within a month from the day you received this
notification.

Yours sincerely,

MR GOODLOCK JOHNSON.
(NATIONAL CO-ORDINATOR)
Website: http://en.red-dot.org/newgallery/page.php?id=48&lang=en

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