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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:
  • "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 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.
  • richard_1971gezi@yahoo.co.uk
  • richard_1972gezi@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "gloto board" <gloto_board510@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:13:27 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION, CONGRATULATION .CONGRATULATION.

GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

Universal Buildiing, 132 - 133 Park
Hurst
Balfour - Unite 1440 Johannesburg,
Gauteng
2001 SOUTH AFRICA OMEGA CROSSING.
TEL: + 27-73-795-1514.

Congratulations!

The Global Mega International Lottery Promotion team is proud to inform you
that you have won USD1 950,000.00 Why you have won Your E-mail address is
one of 200 lucky Addresses who have won in the weekly Promotion.
See below how to claim your prize.
Details on the Winnings
Your Winning Reference Number is: FLS-ZR39-825P-4
Batch Number: 74-263-BBN.
TICKET NUMBER:100-309-7482
SERAIL NUMBER:513-10
WINNING NUMBERS:02,09,22,23,24,30(05)

I wish to Congratulate you on your victory, you are a lucky person to have
won this lottery. Your email address was among those chosen this quarter
from our new java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from
the web which winners are selected.
You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the
processing of your claims and certificate which will facilitate the Your
winning price is to the tune of USD1 950,000.00 Thousand dollar.
1. Full names.
2. Phone number.
3. Fax number.
4. Occupation.
5. Sex.
6. Age.
7. Country.
8)country of resident
Remember, you must contact your claim agent Mr Baloyi,Call him and claim
your prize after calling him send your refrence and batch number and all the
above informations to his email address and call him to let him know that
you have contacted him through email.
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
for claiming of your prize and remember to quote your reference and Batch
Number for easy processing of your prize. That's it!
Processing Manager: Mr. Richard Baloyi
TEL: + 27-737-951-514

EMAIL: richard_1971gezi@yahoo.co.uk
richard_1972gezi@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulations again and have a lot of fun. The International Mega
Promotion team

_________________________________________________________________
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