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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "euro afro american lottery promotion"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27820808161 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: swissonlinelotto@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:16:02 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULTIONBS YOIU ARE A WINNER

Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
Switzerland
>From the desk of: Mrs Rose Dino

Dear Sir/Madam,

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

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 numbers 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category. Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$470.000.00 (Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03 .
This is from a total cash prize of US $ 30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million United States Dollars) shared among the lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers fall within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon. In view of this, your US$470.000.00 (Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand United States Dollars ) would be released to you through the assistance of our agent in South Africa immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

Note that 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.
The lottery programe 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 JAMES CROSS on Email adrress interfinance@easyinfomail.co.za or telephone number +27-82-080 8161 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.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs Rose Dino
(Zonal cordinator)

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