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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +27781703620 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Safa International Lottery" <cosam@zwallet.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:24:25 -0700
Subject: Congratulation you won a lottery


NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

We are pleased to inform you today 20th March 2006 as one of the lucky
winners of the SAFA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERYin conjunction with Confederation
of Africa Football (CAF)/ South African Football Association (SAFA) to
promote the first ever soccer world cup in Africa which will be held 2010 in
South Africa, draws held on 15th March 2006 as part of Our 2010 World cup
promotional draws.

Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail addresses of dividuals and companies from
Africa,America,Asia,Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand
as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.
You are qualified for this draw as a result of you visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for. You/Your
Company e-mail address attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: SAFA 2010/AFRICA
2004, BATCH NUMBER: 154-02I-CAF with serial number 000-19 drew The lucky
numbers 2-2-14-13-6-36 and consequently won in the third quarter of the 2006
year draw.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $1,200,000.00 in
cash, which is the winning payout for First category winners. This is from
the total prize money of US$15,000,000.00 shared among the seven winners in
the First category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (LEGAL PRUDENT
ATTORNEYS) as we have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may arise from
emails of winners and numbers, we ask that you keep this award strictly from
public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to
you. This is part of our Security Protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our
quarter of year (2006) high stakes US$1.2 billion International Lottery. To
begin your claim, please contact our Attorneys who also will be your claims
agent.

MR.BONGO GORMAN
CLAIMS MANAGER
LEGAL PRUDENT ATTORNEYS
SANDTON, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL +27-78 170 3620
FAX +27-11 507 5638
EMAIL:claimmanager@legalprudentfirm.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money,Remember you must
contact your claim agent not later than two weeks After this date,
otherwise,all funds will be returned as Unclaimed.

Please contact your claims manager and provide him with the requested
information so that he can Expedite the processing of your claims.

NAME:_______________________________________________________________
COUNTRY:____________________________________________________________

ADDRESS:____________________________________________________________
CITY:____________________STATE/PROV:________________________________
ZIP/POSTAL:_________________________________________________________
PHONE:________________FAX:__________________________________________
EMAIL:______________________________________________________________
REFERENCE NUMBER:___________________________________________________
BATCH NUMBER:_______________________________________________________


NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent.
Furthermore you are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery
information and numbers from the public in line with our company security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by unscrupulous individuals. Again, should there be any change
in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our Promotions program.

Yours sincerely,

Customers Service Department
Safa National Lotteries.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification.

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