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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• 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")
  • "foreign service manager" (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 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.
  • +27839470181 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • payingagent@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MEGA LOTTERY" <lottoaward8@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:22:17 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

Excerpt from original message:
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,FRANK KHUMALO
ANNOUNCED TODAY.
Ref: 475061725 Batch: 7056490902/188
CONGRATULATIONS

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release from the Australian
International Lottery program. Your name was attached to ticket number;
47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 . 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 have been approved a lump sum pay
of US$ 2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
47509/02 from the total cash prize of US12,000,000.00 shared amongst six
lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,Australia, United States, Asia,
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of ourinternational
promotions program. 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 your name falls within our African
representative office in Johannesburg South Africa. as indicated in your
play coupon and your prize of US$2,000,000.00 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in Johannesburg. We hope with part of your
prize, you will participate in our New Year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.

How to claim your prize Simply contact our fiduciary agent, MR.JOHN PAUL .
EMAIL ADDRESS: payingagent@webmail.co.za
)to file for your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as
well as your
full names and address to help locate your file easily. 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 and unwarranted taking advantage
of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Note, all
winnings MUST be claimed before end of JUNE. 2006;otherwise all funds will
be returned as Unclaimed and eventually
donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Kind Regards
FRANK KHUMALO
PROMOTIONS MANAGER

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
MR.JOHN APUL
EMAIL CONTACT: payingagent@webmail.co.za
PHONE NO :+27 83 9470181
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY
UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132 ? 133 PARK HURST
BALFOUR ? UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001
GAUTENG
GLOBAL MEGA CROSSING.


YOU ARE ADVICE TO CALL YOUR CLAIMING AGENT FIRST MR
payingagent@webmail.co.za, ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE
WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION .

COMPLETE THE FORM BELOW:

REF/BATCH NO: WINNING NO

FULL NAME:

COMPANY NAME:

FULL ADDRESS


TEL: AND FAX


Age Sex Marital Status


Occupation:

Nationality:

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