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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.
• 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.
  • ronaldmugabe111@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "diba mugabe" <dibamugabe@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:24:08 +0200
Subject: Winner Award!!!

MWDS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL - PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM
ADDRESS:PRETORIA ST, 2314/A 1141HE JOHANESSBURG,SOUTH AFRICA
FILE REF: RYWMSD/QUR01-2005RYS
FILE BATCH: 0839/L31/AJ

Approved Winner,

RESULT FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the Category "A" draws of MWDS LOTTERY Program.
We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the
First Category, which is part of our mwds promotional draws. The draws
were held on
the 7th September, 2005. Participants were selected through a computer
ballot
system drawn from 4,000,000 names/email addresses of individuals and
companies
from Africa, America,Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East,
and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program.
You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 01-942810SA,
with serial number 99-03 drew the lucky numbers 3, 5, 10, 54 and
consequently won in the Category "A".You have therefore been awarded a
lump sum pay
out of $1,500,000(0NE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE
DOLLARS)
in cash, which is the winning payout for Category "A" winners.

This is from the total prize shared among the 5 international winners
in
this category. Your funds are now deposited with a reputable finance
firm in the SOUTH AFRICAN Insured with your FILE REFERENCE number.
In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of
any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award
strictly
from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has
been completed,
and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security
protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of
this program.
This lottery program was organized by our group of philanthropist
promoted and sponsored by Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc,
eminent personalities like the sultan of Brunei, Multi Choice and other
corporate Organizations. This lottery program was organized to
improving
the use of computer software and for the benefit of every Microsoft
user.To begin your claim, please contact your file processing officer.

Mr. Ronald Mugabe
OF MWDS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
Email:ronaldmugabe111@yahoo.com



Kind Regards,
MRS BETH WILFREY WEIJERS.
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM

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