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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.
  • +27733276620 (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.
  • canada_lotteryagent_zuma@canada.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • agent_canadalottery_zuma@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "R ZUMA" <canada_lotteryag@canada.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:21:40 -0800
Subject: VERIFICATION FORM CLSA M38605.


From: Name: Mr. R Zuma
Email: canada_lotteryagent_zuma@canada.com
Email: agent_canadalottery_zuma@yahoo.com
PHONE: +27-73-327-6620

Dear Winner,


We wish to bring you notice that our office as
Regional coordinators of the Canada Lottery Soccer
World Cup 2010 Promotional draw South Africa has been
duly notified of your winnings of US$1.000,000.00
Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake Lottery International
draws held on the Wed Mar 22 2006 by drawing the
lucky numbers 8/12/17/23/36/38 with a bonus Number
43, for LOTTO 6/49 under the choice of the lottery
in the 2nd category of daily three.

Be further notified that before we commence with your
payment, our headquarters in Ontario Canada requires
that we make verifications before transferring your
prize winnings to you. Hence we have attached an "A
VERIFICATION FORM to this e-mail, which you must fill
in. We would like you to fill the form carefully and
return it to us as soon as possible this is to enable
us to process your file with immediate effect. It
will be very important that no errors are made, to
avoid suspicion or any fraudulence.

Be sure that all the information you give is correct
to avoid loosing your prize. Once we receive the form
with your details, we will forward it to Canada for
approval (confirmation of you as right winner). Then
our office here will proceed to send to you, all the
relevant documents for your claims and give you more
information on how to transfer your prize money.

NOTE: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PRINT OUT THIS FORM AND FILL
IT WITH A BLACK PEN, THEN SCAN AND ATTACH IT BACK TO
US FOR VERIFICATION. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US
ON +27-73-327-6620.

Here is the information we need:
Date:
Your name:
Ticket NO:
Batch No:
Ref NO:
Serial NO:
File NO:
Winning No:
Your home or office address:
Country:
Business Name/Company Name:
Phone and fax number:

Mr. R Zuma

Respond immediately.

Once more,

Congratulations!


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