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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:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Tela Robertson" <telarobertson_03@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:00:43 -0800
Subject: SOUTH/AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, TELA ROBERTSON
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING PRIZE RELEASE CENTRE.


CONGRATULATIONS;

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 27 of DECEMBER
2005 from the AUSTRALIAN International Lottery program held in SOUTH AFRICA
by South African leading lottery organization (GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY). Your
email address was attached on ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial
number 7741137002.

It was not an individual lotto playing, but the computer itself picked out
from all over the world.
1,000,000 email addresses was selected and picked from the Internet, so
those email addresses of Participants that was selected and picked from the
internet were again selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
among the 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all
part of the world, this is called the computer ballot.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,
which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby
qualified as one of the winners and have been approved a lump sum pay of US$
1,750,000.00 (ONE MILLION SEVEN
HUNHRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02
from the total cash prize of US28, 000,000.00 shared amongst sixteen lucky
winners in this category.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more;
you have to note that this program is strongly behind FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN
TEAM, to create awareness for the coming 2010 world Cup, which is to be host
by South Africa.

YOUR WINNING PRIZE WILL BE RELEASED FROM THIS REGIONAL
BRANCH OFFICE IN JOHANNESBURG (GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY).

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our final year high
stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE; Simply contact our fiduciary agent, Mr. Ashley
Sipho
( ashleysipho@megalottery.t2u.com ) to file for your claim.

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number and your winning
amount, which can be found below; you are required to include your full
address together with your email address to help locate your file easily.

REF NO: 475061725
BATCH NO: 7056490902/188
WINNIN NO: 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17
AMOUNT: US$ 1,750,000.00

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until
your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid
double claiming, Internet scams and unwarranted individuals taking advantage
of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note that all winnings MUST be claimed before 27 JANUARY 2006 ; otherwise
all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Kind Regards
TELA ROBERTSON
PROMOTIONS MANAGER


PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
MR. ASHHLEY SIPHO
TEL: 27 73 2424 005
E-MAIL: ashleysipho@megalottery.t2u.com
PROCESSING MANAGER,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY
UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132 – 133 PARK HURST
BALFOUR – UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001
GAUTENG


ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE
WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION;

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