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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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• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "john sono" <johnsono15@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:39:14 +0200
Subject: L0TT0 WINNING NOTIFICATION(FOR S.A 2010 WORLD CUP)

From : Mr John Sono.

South African 2010 World Cup Bid  Lottery Award

Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon

Court Carlton East Gate

Batch: 13/26/DC36

                                                            WINNING NOTIFICATION

Attention:Isa,

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. 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 on you the lottery award in the 2nd category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,000.000( Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03.This is from a total cash prize of

US $200,000,000.00 Million dollars, shared among the first 200 Hundred and  lucky winners in this category world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as  indicated in the play coupon.

In view of this, your US$2,000.000 (Two Million United States Dollars) would be released to you by our fund manager once you contact him for accreditation and claiming of fund. Also your claim includes a free flight ticket and one month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotel. All participants were selected randomly from internet database world wide through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and individual emails address.

The lottery programe took place  to promote  South Africa 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 be warned.

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 28th October 2005. To avoid unnecessary delays and applications,please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program that has succesfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

signed:

Former President NELSON MANDELA (Chairman)

MOLEFI OLIPHANT (President)

Albert Mokoena (Chief Operations Officer)

Danny Jordan(Chief Executive Officer)

N.B Reply to the above e-mail address to get the details of our fund manager for accreditation and cliaming of your fund .

Thank you for your co-operation

Mr.John Sono (Zonal Co-ordinator).

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