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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 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.
  • +27781095080 (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.
  • dr_michaelpet@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "salotto admin lotto board" <sa2lottoprograme@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:24:21 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:

From: Mrs. Victoria Duke
South African 2010 World Cup Bid lottery Award
Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court Carlton East Gate
Batch: 13/26/DC36
Customer Service: 583 NCA 86924
Ref: EAASL/931OYI/03
Batch: 13/26/DC36
WEBSITE: WWW.SOCCER.CO.ZA

Dear Sir / Madam,

LUCKY WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International program held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199 with Serial number
97560 drew the winning: 60/84/27/17/36, which
was randomly selected by our central computer system, subsequently your
lottery award is in the 2nd category. Your name have therefore been
short-listed to claim a total sum of US$900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03.This is
from a total cash prize of US$20,000,000 Million dollars, shared amongst the
first lucky winners in this category world-wide. (THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AN
AFRICAN COUNTRY IS HOSTING THE SOCCER WORLD CUP, THIS IS THE REASON FOR THIS
COMPUTER DRAW, YOU ARE WELCOME TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE MONEY, THIS PROGRAME IS
SPONSORED BY 25 COMPANIES INCLUDING COCA-COLA, MICRO SOFT, ETC.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Lottery booklet
representative office in Africa . In view of this, your US$900,000.00 (Nine
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our
participating bank.
Our African principal 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 sites through
computer draw system. . For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning Information confidential till your claims are processed and your
money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our PAYMENT AGENT as soon as you read
this message for urgent release of your fund, his contact information is as
follows:
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Name: Dr.MICHAEL PETERSON
Tel: +27-78-109-5080
E-mail :dr_michaelpet@yahoo.com

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, always quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated
agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program for
successfully winning this competition.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
Signed:
Mr. Nelson BONGANI (chairman)
Mr. Albert MOKOENA (Chief Operations Officer )
Dr.Danny JORDAAN (Chief Executive Officer)
Thank you for your co-operation
Mrs. VICTORIA DUKE ( Zonal Co-ordinator )
**N.B Call our principal agent for your claim, do not miss this golden
opportunity.

_________________________________________________________________
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