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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • thabojohnson@classicmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA" <mbajfnb29@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jmbatha@classicmail.co.za
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 01:09:31 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE WON THE LOTTERY

INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY SA
#265 FERIGRAN STREET, PRETORIA
EAST, PRETORIA, 0002 - SOUTH AFRICA.
FROM THE DIRECTOR, PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
LUCKYNUMBERS: 06, 13, 26,33,43,46.
REFNUMBERS: INL-PF23-711W-9
BATCHNUMBERS: 46-184-WAN.
SERIAL NUMBERS: 215-18 DRAW.

FINAL PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you from INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY SA of the
announcement today, 11th May 2007 as one of the lucky winners of The
INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY SA Draws held on the 5th of May 2007 as part of our
e-business promotional draws end. Participants in the draws were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and
Middle East, as part of our electronic Business Promotions Program.

You qualified for the draw as a result of your visiting various websites we
are running the Electronic-business promotions for. You/Your Company email
address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: INL-PF23-711W-9, BATCH NUMBER:
46-184-WAN with SERIAL NUMBER 215-18 drew the lucky numbers 06, 13,
26,33,43,46 and consequently won the year 2007 draw. You have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,500,000.00 in cash, which is the
winning payout for First category winners. This is from the total prize
money of US$10,500,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the First
category.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents.
(INL FINANCE LIMITED) As we have notified them. Due to the mix that may
arise from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with
a part of your prize, you will participate in our third quarter of year
(2007) high stakes US$1.1 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent who also will be your
claim agent immediately:

MR THABO JOHNSON.
MANAGER BROKERAGE SERVICE.
INL FINANCE LIMITED.
Email: thabojohnson@classicmail.co.za
TEL: 27-733 497 257.
FAX: 27 866 009 755
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, remember you must
contact your claim agent not later than 10th of June 2007 after this date,
all funds will be returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers provided below in every one of your correspondences with your claims
agent. REFERENCE NUMBER: INL-PF23-711W-9, BATCH NUMBER: 46-184-WAN.

Also to begin your Claim sends to your claims agent the following
information by email.

1) YOUR BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) AMOUNT WON.
3) YOUR FULL NAME.
4) YOUR ADDRESS.
5) A COPY OF YOUR ID (PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LISCENCE).
6) CONTACT DETAILS, (MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER).
7) SERIAL NUMBERS.
8) OCCUPATION.
9) AGE.
10) DATE.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and management. Thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,

THE DIRECTOR, PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY
SOUTH AFRICA

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