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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.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +27839293300 (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.
  • calebmartins123@yahoo.co.in (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lottodraw_080 lottodraw_080" <lottodraw_090@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:31:32 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR WINNING

PROMOTIONS MANAGER CALEB MARTINS
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PRIZE
RELEASE CENTRE WINNING
Ref: 475061725 Batches: 7056490902/188


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release from the Australian
International Lottery program. Your name was attached to ticket number;
47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky
numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the
lottery in the second category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay
of US$2.1 million (TOW MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THAUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$33.6
million shared amongst sixteen lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States,
Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by
a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base. Further more your name falls within our African
representative office in Johannesburg South Africa. as indicated in your
play coupon and your prize of US$2.1 Million will be released to you from
our paying banks. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in
our Middle of the year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
How to claim your prize Simply contact our fiduciary agents, Dr CALEB
MARTINS, EMAIL ADDRESS: (calebmartins123@yahoo.co.in ) to file for your
claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be
found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full names
and address to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or
unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before end of 30
working days otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and
eventually donated to charity organizations.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENTS
Dr. CALEB MARTINS
EMAIL CONTACT: calebmartins123@yahoo.co.in
PHONE NO: +27 83-929-33-00
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY
UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132? 133 PARK HURST
BALFOUR? UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001
GAUTENG.
YOU ARE ADVICE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMING AGENTS IMMEDIATELY.
ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.
FORWARD YOUR WINNING NUMBERS,YOUR FULL NAME,YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS AND
YOUR FULL ADDRESS.
Kind Regards
DR. CALEB MARTINS
PROMOTIONS MANAGER

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