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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • +27734591545 (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.
  • claimsofficer_za@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "MRS.JOY BONGO" <mrsjoy_bongo20@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:15 +0200
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR,
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD
JOHANNESBURG REGIONAL OFFICE: 123 RIVONIA ROAD, MORNINGSIDE SANDTON,
JOHANNESBURG 4168,
SOUTH AFRICA.



ATTN:Winner,


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup ttery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. All 130
winning e-mail addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 129 others which
subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category. The following particulars are attached to your lottery payment order:

WINNING NUMBERS: 03/27/33/09/45
E-MAIL TICKET NUMBER: SA2010/9665/10
LOTTO CODE NUMBER: SA2010/97560/07
FILE REF. NO: SA2010/ 60/84/27/17/36

Your hereby have been approved to claim a lump sum pay out of (US$820,000) Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars in cash credited to
file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a total cash prize of US $110,000,000 Million United States dollars, shared amongst the first One-Hundred and thirty (130) lucky winners in this category worldwide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in the play coupon.

All participating e-mail addresses were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from 50,000,000 e-mails from Canada, Switzerland, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational IT companies/BILL GATE in conjunction with JUNOSTAKERS LOTTERY PROMOTION as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base and to promote the South African 2010 World Cup Award to
Africa for the first time.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims manager:

Name: MR. RICHARD DEWAR
(CLAIMS MANAGER)
E-mail: claimsofficer_za@yahoo.com
Telephone: +27 73 459 1545

Please quote your reference, code and winning and ticket numbers in all correspondence with the claims manager to avoid unnecessary delay and complications. 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 informed that all winning must be claimed honor before 30th April 2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

signed:

Nelson Black (Chairman)
Molefi OLIPHANT (President)

Chief accountant Officer
Mrs. Rebecca Pelt

Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAN

N.B. Anybody under the age of 18 cannot participate in this programme and any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification.

Thank you for your co-operation
MRS.JOY BONGO(Promotion Director)

Anti-fraud resources:

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