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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")
  • "hundred thousand 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.
  • klawrence001@workmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • lottocomplaints@workmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: doris thabo <ourdraws38@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <klawrence001@workmail.co.za>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:46:38 +0200
Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIM'S AGENT



INTERCONTINENTAL LOTTERY SA.#265 FERIGRAN STREET, PRETORIAEAST, PRETORIA, 0002 - SOUTH AFRICA.FROM THE DIRECTOR, PRIZE AWARDDEPARTMENT.

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of INTERCONTINENTALLOTTERY SA, International lottery programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$1,500,000.00 (One million, Five hundred thousand United States dollars).

LUCKYNUMBERS: 06, 13, and 26,33,43,46.REFNUMBERS: INL-PF23-711W-9BATCHNUMBERS: 46-184-WAN.SERIAL NUMBERS: 215-18 DRAW.)

The SA Gambling Board approves the INTERCONTINENTALLOTTERY SA. To begin the Processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduciary claims department for more information as regards the procedures to claim your prize.For all claims, please the officer whose name and email addres appear below ;

Mr. Lawrence King (Claim agent INL FINANCE LIMITED)Email: klawrence001@workmail.co.za

For due processing and remittance of your prize money you are to contact your claim agent Mr. Lawrence King as soon as possible without any delay as all funds not claim will be returned as unclaimed.
Contact him by sending the under listed in formations to him:
(1) FULL NAME(2) FULL ADDRESS(3) NATIONALITY(4) AGE(5) SEX(6) OCCUPATION(7) TELEPHONE NUMBER
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.Yours Sincerely,Mrs, Doris Thabo(Online Co-ordinator) WARNING:If you receive any other lottery winning notification claiming it is from South Africa, please disregard it or write to "lottocomplaints@workmail.co.za " for appropriate actions.Because Intercontinental Lottery is the only certified Lottery Game in South Africa.

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