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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.
  • +27835354446 (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.
  • martinkulu@yahoo.ie (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "cellc2010 lotto intl" <cllcltins@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:58:59 +0200
Subject: FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS !! CONGRATULATIONS !!!

FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are happy to notify you of the result of promotional draw of 21st jan
2006 and the winners of the CELL.C. LOTTO PROMOTIONS.
Emails addresses of participants were randomly selected.
The emails are being chosen from a computer ballot system drawn from
4,251,000 personal and corporate email addresses from the entire continent.
Ranging from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East
and the rest of the world as part of our Electronic Business Promotions
Program.
Your email address is one of millions of addresses selected from various
website on the Internet which qualify for the draw. Your email was attached
to ticket number VLP342 458X, and serial number 0012455566 drew the lucky
numbers 2, 5,10, 16, 24, 36, 48. The ticket number attached to your email
address came with the following details below, which makes you the winner in
the third category of the draw.
Below are the winning results of the ticket attached to your email. Winning
Ticket is Number - VLP342-458X Serial Number - 0012455566 your lucky draw
Numbers are - 2, 5, 10, 16, 24, 36, 48 Bonus Number - 9
INSURANCE Number: 04/10044/256
Since you are the winner in the third category of the draw,you are therefore
the winner of US$3,000,000.00, which will be paid out to you in cash, The
total amount of US$30,000,000.00 will be shared among Ten international
jackpot winner.
CONGRATULATIONS! For security reasons and accurate payout of the winning
prize, be informed that your winning prize of US$3,000,000.00 is deposited
with our bank(FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA .
,
with your email address, which won you this prize. I will advise you to
please forward your claim of the prize directly to CM SA.
Please keep the details in this mail strictly to yourself until your claim
has been processed to avoid someone else claiming your prize. To start
processing your claim, please contact CM SA immediately with this reference
number: VLP-ZR04/0336454 and BATCH NUMBER: 236-2554-2555SA

MR MARTIN KULU
Tel +27-835-354-446
Claim Manager,
CTF SA.
P.O. Box 524,
Johannesburg 2001
South Africa
EMAIL:(martinkulu@yahoo.ie)
NB: Prize won must be claim not later than 4 weeks from the day of receipt
of this notice. Prize not claim will be returned as unclaimed. .
THIS LOTTERY PROGRAM, IS A BONUS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD FOR THE PROMOTION OF
CELL.C. IN SOUTH AFRICA
Congratulations.
Sincerely,
Portia Shabangu (Ms)
Promotion Department
CELL .C. COMMUNICATION
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
CELL.C. SOUTH AFRICA GOES WORLWIDE

THIS PROGRAM IS SPONSURED BY: SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTO AUTHORITY. AND SUPPORTED
BY: (CELL.C. COMMUNICATION COMPANY ASSOCIATION

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