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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 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.
  • claimscontact@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Marlene Smith" <winner_direct@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimscontact@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:23:46 +0000
Subject: Congratulations, you won a lottery.

NET TIME LOTTERY
UNIT 7 VILLAGE BLUES
NO. 4 ZUMA CRESCENT
GAUTENG PROVINCE.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: NET/3651246008/05
BATCH: 21/0012/OKO

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION:

Be informed that you have emerged a winner of our Lottery International
Program that was drawn three days from the day of this notice.
Attached to ticket number 6,13,23,47,64 BONUS NO: 80 with serial Number
3113-04 matched the winning numbers 6,13,23,47,64 BONUS NO: 80 and
consequently won our Net Online International lottery in the 3rd category.

Approved is a lump sum of One Million Two hundred Thousand Euro(1,200,000
Euro)in cash prize accredited to file REF NO. NET/3651246008/05 that should
be released to you. This is from the total prize money of (18,000,000 Euro)
shared among the fifteen International winners in this category.
Participants were selected through a referral program and winners were
picked by a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Australia,
New Zealand, America,Asia,Europe,Africa and North America as part our
International Promotions Program. Participants are selected from individuals
all over the world that do register on the Internet daily. This draw
automatically qualifies you for our end of the year International Grand draw
of
(100,000,000 Euro) that will take place by the end of the year. Due to the
mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money released to
you.

To begin your claim, please contact the Claims department:

THOMAS MAZIBUKO
(Claims Manager)
Phone: +27837535119
Email: claimscontact@yahoo.com

NB: Prizes must be claimed not later than 8 working days. After these
stipulated days, all funds will be returned as unclaimed prizes and will
channeled for charity. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your winning reference batch numbers
in
every one of your correspondences with the claims officer. Congratulations
and thank you for being part of our International promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,

Marlene Smith.
(NET TIME PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR)


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