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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:

• 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.
  • +27737471417 (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.
  • frankwhite@inbox.com

Fraud email example:

From: "hans zuki" <zukihans30@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: zukipromo@yahoo.co.in
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:08:54 +0200
Subject: -------PRIZE WINNING NOTIFICATIONS--------------

POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GANE 2006,
Date: 21TH MARCH 2006
REF NO: MLF/06/6654/LWG

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSULTATION PRIZE NOTICE

The Mahala Loboli Foundation international e-games
organizers and co-sponsors, UTHINGO LOTTERIES SOUTH
AFRICA officially brings to your notice, the final
draw result of the 20th FEBRUARY -2006 POWERBALL
LOTTO-wheel E-game which was conducted at our
international corporate office complex in Johannesburg.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY
SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT
SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seeks to
encourage the use of the Internet for academic and
business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music,
theater, art and literary projects in the social and
political arena with a focus on health, as
well as science, research, and higher education. We
wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection
of your email coupon number which was selected among
the 45 lucky consultation prize winners.
Your email ID identified with Coupon No.
PBL242-6914-20 and was selected by our E-games Random
Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.
Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different
email addresses submitted by our partner international
email provider companies. You have won a
consultation cash prize of US $1.500,000.00 (One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars) only. The MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION has
approved a payout of your consultation cash prize
which will be remunerated directly to you by the
official Payment Agency. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU)
will render to you complete assistance and provide
additional information and processes for the claims of
your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please
contact the DPU accredited claims officer

MR. FRANK WHITE
TEL:+27737471417
E-mail:frankwhite@inbox.com


Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your
consultation prize winning, we hope you will partake
in our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO-wheel Email-games
end of year sweepstakes special.

Regards,

Mrs Zuki Hans

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
E-games policy and regulations,this notification is
dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation
prize Winners.This notification also contains
information that is proprietary, privileged or
confidential or
otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. Any breach
of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to
this mail. Rather, contact your claims officer whose
credentials are listed above. All staff of MAHALA
LOBOLI FOUNDATION and members of their family as well
as South Africans of all ages are barred from this
lottery

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