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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:

• 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.
  • +27736802396 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "shelly krane" <shellykra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:40:17 +0200
Subject: Re: CONTACT AND VERIFY


*DEAR WINNER,*

*THE FIFA 2010 SPORTSTAKE GAME IS A NATIONAL LOTTERY GAME AUTHORISED UNDER
THE LOTTERIES ACT 1997 IT IS OPERATED BY UTHINGO MANEGEMENT PTY
LTD.UNDERLICENCE FROM THE NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD AND ACCORDING TO THE
CURRENT
SPORTSTAKE GAME RULES.WHICH CAN BE VIEWED AT ANY NATIONAL LOTTERY*

* *

*IT IS SOUTH AFRICA GAMING COMMISSION LOTTERY PROGRAM. THE FIFA WORLD CUP
2010 SPORTSTAKES, SOUTH AFRICA IS HOSTING THE NEXT FIFA WORLD CUP.THIS DRAWS
WAS CONDUCTED FROM AN EXCLUSIVE LIST OF 25 000 000 E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF
INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE BODIES PICKED BY AN ADVANCED AUTOMATED RANDOM
COMPUTER BALLOT SEARCH FROM THE INTERNET AS PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS PROGRAM WHICH WE CONDUCT EVERY YEAR SINCE 2005.NO TICKETS WERE
SOLD.*

* *

*AFTER THIS AUTOMATED COMPUTER BALLOT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS ATTACHED TO*

*SERIAL NUMBER 25-6565 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 6-13-18-24-33-39 WHICH*

*CONSEQUENTLY EMERGED YOU AS ONE OF THE FIRST FIVE INTERNATIONAL LUCKY*

*WINNERS IN THIS CATEGORY.*

* *

*TO COMMENCE WITH YOUR CLAIM PROCESS PLEASE DO CONTACT OUR CHIEF CLAIM
EXECUTIVE MR JIMMY TAU AT HIS TELEPHONE OR EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW.*

*TEL: +27736802396*
*EMAIL:**jtau@unionpost.net* <jtau@unionpost.net>

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