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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim 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.
  • +447031845585 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704780831 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +27732613739 (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.
  • jhndlovu@yahoo.com
  • reportanycomplaints@webmail.co.za

Fraud email example:

From: "WORLD CUP." <smusel01@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:51:04 +0200
Subject: THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP BID!!!

THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP BID ONLINE GAME.    

                                     

 

South Africa Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service                 

WEBSITE: WWW.SOCCER.CO.ZA 

                                                                                

Batch: 14/211/0374  
Ref: BTL/311OXI/02

                                          

                                     WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

   We happily announce to you the draw of the British South Africa 2010 world cup lottery bid online programs held  in London to suport and promote south african 2010 world cup, Your e-mail address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers:01-6-2-13-35-17, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000.00( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44. This is from a total cash prize of  £125 Million British Pounds.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British & South Africa Lottery, The estimated 125 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K/.S.A. history.The biggest was the 363 million  jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet and our representative office in  South African as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your £1,500,000.00 ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) would be released to you by our international foreign currency department in South Africa.

 

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him and call him on the phone. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 5,000,000 emails of companies/individuals.This promotion takes place annually.To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa with the below details for processing of your claims.

Agent Name: Mr. John  Ndlovu.

Email: jhndlovu@yahoo.comalexkabong

 Phone: +27-732-613-739.

 

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent immediatly  with this information:

 

NAME:..........................................................................
ADDRESS:.....................................................................
NATIONALITY:...............................................................
SEX:..............................................................................
AGE:..............................................................................
PHONE/MOBILE:............................................................
FAX:...............................................................................
OCCUPATION:.................................................................
COMPANY:......................................................................
BATCH:..........................................................................

WINNING NUMNBERS:......................................................

REFERENCE NUMBER:......................................................

TICKET NUMBER:.............................................................

NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE YOU WANT TO RECEIVE YOUR WINNING: SUCH AS:

BANK NAME AND ADDRESS, ACCOUNT NUMBER, SWIFT CODE.

 

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in our designated agent.

 

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

 

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Smith Russells
Promotion Director.

Phone +44-703-184-55-85.

Fax:+44-870-478-08-31.

 

Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be using Britsih Or South African 2010 National Lottery addresses, but are not from The British or South African Lottery Office.

  PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO : 
CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT:reportanycomplaints@webmail.co.za

LAST WINNERS ON BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE GAME.

 

 

    

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