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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:

• 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.
  • +27724777853 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: remi zuma <remi_zuma02za@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:08:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award Lottery Headquarters


South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court Carlton East Gate,
Johannesburg South Africa.

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199 with! Serial number 97560 and Batch: 13/26/DC36 draw the Ref No: 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently on you the lottery award in the 2nd category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ($2M) Two million Dollars in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03.This is from a total cash prize of Six Hundred Million Dollars ($600,000,000.00) shared among the first 900 lucky winners in this category world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in the play coupon.

In view of this, your $2,000.000 (Two Million Dollars) would be released to you by our Claim Manager. As soon as you contact him, he will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds.

Participants were selected through a referral program and winners were picked by a computer ballot system drawn form 100,000,00 companies and individuals names from World Wide Web site Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, America, Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. The lottery program is to promote South African 2010 world cup award.

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.

To file for your claim, please contact our Claiming Manager immediately

MR: REMI ZUMA
(Claim Manager)
Phone: +27-72-4777-853

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before two weeks from the day of notification After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agent or us.

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

Signed:

Nelson Mandela (chairman)
Molefi Oliphant (President)

Chief Operations Officer
Albert Mokoena

Chief Executive Officer
Danny Jordaan

N.B Call our Claiming manager for your claim, do not miss this oppotunity. Also you are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age.

Thank you for your co-operation
Steve Lucas (Zonal Co-ordinator)

NB: PLEASE FILL THIS FORM FOR US, TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE DURING THE TIME OF YOUR PAYMENT.

YOUR TELEPHONE:.................... AND FAX:...................

YOUR OCCUPATION:............................................

YOUR AGE:………………………………………………

BANK NAME: ....................

ACCOUNT HOLDER’S NAME:........................

BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:.............................

BANK ADDRESS:........................................

SWIFT CODE:.................................

COUNTRY AND CITY: ........................

























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