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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "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.
  • zuma@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "global lottery" <global_za1@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:17:58 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

!!NATIONAL LOTTERY INCORPORATE!!

RE: A ONCE AND FINAL AWARD NOTIFICATION CATEGORY "B".

It is our great pleasure to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws of the National Lottery Incorporate promotion programme.
for World Cup Bid which will held here in South Africa 2010 The online cyber
draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 55,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
five winners in the category "B" with the followings:
Ref Number:NLI/BA29641-Y72
Batch Number:NLI DHX/5108
Ticket Number:01233/TNO59
Serial Number:G2800
Lucky number:62 88 521

You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of
$2,500,000.00.(TWO MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) each from the
total payout.

Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "B" winners
with the informations below:

MR MICHAE ZUMA
GLOBAL CONSULTING,

Email: michael_20_zuma@hotmail.com, NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not
later than 14 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in
the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence. You are to keep all winning information away from the
general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is
important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
MR MICHAE ZUMA


NB: PLEASE FILL THIS FOR US, TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE DURING THE TIME OF YOUR
PAYMENT.

N/B: YOUR TELEPHONE.................... AND FAX...................

BANK NAME: ....................

ACCOUNT HOLDER’S NAME:........................

BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:.............................

SWIFT CODE:.................................

BANK ADDRESS:...........................

CITY:....................... AND COUNTRY: ........................

BANK TELEPHONE: ............................ AND FAX NUMBER:
..............................

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam