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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-sweepstake lottery"
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • +447031847245 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • philipkumaloesq005@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "ukonline lottery" <ukonline_lottery04@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: all_lottery_enquiry@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:06:56 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS" CONGRATULATIONS" CONGRATULATIONS"

From: Mrs. Teresa Allan.
Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom
Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914

ALL ENQUIRY IN LONDON TO MR.ADAMS( ADMIN SEC )
+44 703 1847 245

Dear Sir/Maddam,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery team is proud to inform you that
you have won a total sum of US$820,000.00(Eighty Hundred and Twenty Thousand
United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.Why you
have won Your E-mail address is one of 130 lucky
Addresses who have won in the weekly Promotion.

See below how to claim your prize.

Details on the Winnings

Your Winning Reference Number is: EAASL/941OYI/04

Batch Number: 12/27/Du34

TICKET NUMBER:B956475604545188

SERAIL NUMBER:97560

WINNING NUMBERS:10/12/13/19/31/46/)

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afrobooklet
representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your US$820,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States
Dollars) would be released to you by First National Bank South
Africa(F.N.B.). You are advice for your best intrest to keep your winning
informations intact to your self untill your winning Fund is transfered in
your nominated Bank account , to avoid double claim.

Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00 companies.

Just contact our processing Agent below for claiming of your prize and
remember to quote your reference and Batch Number for easy processing of
your prize. That's it!

AGENT TO THE NATIONAL LOTTERY,

Processing Agent: Barr Philip kumalo Esq

TEL: 27-83 553 67 93

EMAIL:(philipkumaloesq005@yahoo.com)

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that
has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our
promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Teresa Allan

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