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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "Issa Hayatou" <issaayatou@msn.com>
Reply-To: issahayatou@pobox.com
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:21:27 +0000
Subject: CAF Lottery Winner

CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL(CAF)
REGIONAL SECRETARIAT
ABUJA

RE-CAF/MTN AFRICAN NATIONS CUP LOTTERY PROMOTION

RESULT.

In Furtherance of the organisers/sponsors of the above competetetion in

order to give enough publicity to the championships which kicks off on the

20th January in Egypt,a promotional lottery draw was held on 2/01/2006.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 27522465896-6453 with

Serial No:3772-554 drew the Lucky Nos:9-42-20-23-28-45 (JACKPOT)

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category .
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (Five Hundred

Thousand U.S Dollars) in cash credited to file No:87k4/336/T0714/003.

This is from a total cash prize of $15,949,880 shared amongst the
several lucky winners in this category .You have also won a flight ticket

and all expenses paid trip to cairo for two weeks to watch the football

matches live.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World

Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over

100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online as

part of our international promotions programme conducted annually to

encourage prospective overseas awareness of the soccer fiesta. We hope

with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent

lottery jackpots.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African

booklet representative office in Nigeria as indicated in your play coupon In

view of this, your (Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars )released to you by

any of our courier department.Our agent will immediately commence the

process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact us

back.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning details

confidential till your claim is 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 programme.Please be warned!
To file for your claim, please contact us back citing the batch and
reference

numbers to this letter between the hours of 8.00am - 10.30pm on Mondays

through Saturdays
Regards:
MR ISSA HAYATOU
PRESIDENT,CAF.

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