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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million british pounds" (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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "00,000.00" (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 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.
  • +447031744497 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +442032399173
• 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.
  • willsmith@tsamail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: South African 2010 World Cup B <claim11@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: willsmith@tsamail.co.za
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:55:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION MAIL: CLAIM YOUR FUND


 
Euro Afro British Lottery promotion

Draw of South African 2010 World Cup

From Headquarters Customer Services

No: 33 Cavendish Square London , W1G 0PW

United Kingdom W1G 0PW London



DEAR: Lucky Winner



Congratulations! You have won south african British Lottery World Cup Bid



We happily announce to you the result of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in United Kingdom . Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number:  B9665 75604546 199 with! Serial number
97560 drew the winning: 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you the lottery
award in the 2nd category. Your name has therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £ 800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand British pounds) in cash
credited to file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £
32,000,000.000 (Thirty two million British pounds) shared among the first 400
lucky winners in this category worldwide.



Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet
representative office in united kingdom as indicate in the play coupon.In view
of this, your £ 800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand British pounds) would be
released through the assistance of our agent in United Kingdom immediately he
will commences the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as
you contacted him. Also your claim included with free flight ticket and one
month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotels.



All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and
individual emails address world wide. The lottery program took place to
promote South Africa 's 2010 world cup award. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure 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 agent
 (MR. William Smith).. 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.



Claiming Agent (MR. William Smith).

E-mail address is: willsmith@tsamail.co.za

MR. William Smith,

Tel+44-703-1744-497
TelFax: +44-203-2399-173
E-mail: willsmith@tsamail.co.za



MRS ANGELA C. ELVIS

ZONAL CORDINATOR.



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