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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.
  • +27728449818 (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.
  • globalfinance_pty@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "james ntufi" <jamesntufi@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:07:51 +0200
Subject: 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY DRAW !!!

SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
OFFICE ADDRESS: 239,3rd STREET, WYNBERG, JOHANNESBURG-SOUTH AFRICA.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FROM: PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF NUMBER: NLI/BA29641-Y72
BATCH NUMBER: NLI-DHX/5108/DWL
TICKET NUMBER: 01033/SA059ZAR
SERIAL NUMBER: SA211990
LUCKY NUMBER: 7 16 37 48 51 62



RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION.


We wish to inform you of the lottery draws held recently to declare the
winners of the Southern African 2010 World Cup Lottery draws for the 2010
FIFA World Cup which will held here in South Africa .The online cyber draws
was conducted from an exclusive list of 55,000 E-mail addresses of
individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer selection from the web, No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, Your Name and Email address emerged
the winners in the category “A” with the followings information:

REF NUMBER: NLI/BA29641-Y72
BATCH NUMBER: NLI-DHX/5108/DWL
TICKET NUMBER: 01033/SA059ZAR
SERIAL NUMBER: SA211990
LUCKY NUMBER: 7 16 37 48 51 62


You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of $1.000.000.00
(One Million U.S Dollars) in cash credited to your TICKET NUMBER:
01033/SA059ZAR ,Your prize award has been insured to your Name and Email
address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,
statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the process of your claim, please contact our licensed and
accredited Agent on the information below,

NAME: MR.PAT TIMA
TELEPHONE: + 27 72 844 9818
FAX: + 27 11 219 7074
MAILTO: GLOBALFINANCE_PTY@YAHOO.COM

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 21 days. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your winning information in all correspondence. You are to keep all winning
information away from the general public, this is important as to avoid
double claims which will not be entertained.

If you are under the ages of 18 you are automatically disqualify to
participate in this promotion and members of the affiliate agencies are also
not allowed to participate in this program.


Thank you and congratulations from members and staff of Southern African
Football Association (SAFA) for being one of our lucky winners.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. James Ntufi.

*Tata ma chance Tata ma million*

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