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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • nelsonvusi2005@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "national lottery" <national_lottery200412@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:44:57 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
Switzerland

From the desk of: Mrs Sandra Nzama
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: 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$2,000.000.00 (Two million 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 first 200 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 indicate in the play coupon. In view of this, your US
$2,000.000 ( Two Million United
States Dollars ) would be released to 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 contacted him.

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 NELSON VUSI
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.His e-mail address is :nelsonvusi2005@hotmail.com

Tel:27-73-9842431
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Sandra Nzama
(Zonal cordinator)

pls use this E-mail:nelsonvusi2005@hotmail.com



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