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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.
  • +447024017494 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • promo2006claimsagent@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "WORLD CUP PROMO" <result2006prom@terra.com.mx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:58:05 -0600
Subject: Congratulations/FL/096/22/UK



CONGRATULATIONS!!!


SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY DRAW
HEADQUARTERS. LIVERPOOL LONDON UK.
P.O.Box 1010

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 1000 lucky winners in the Free Lotto Draw held on the 9th of June 2006, few hours after the opening ceremony of Germany 2006 Fifa world cup. Your email address emerged along side with the others as a category of winners in this year's Annual free lottery draw. All 1000 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of USD$50,000 (Fifty thousand United State's Dollars ) only.


The South African World Cup 2010 Free lottery Draw started since the announcement was made on Saturday, 15 May, 2004, 10:34 GMT 11:34 UK by the Fifa president Sepp Blatter in Zurich. Fifa president Sepp Blatter made the announcement following a secret ballot of Fifa's 24 executives. South Africans are happy to be the first African country to host football's showpiece.

The World Cup 2010 Free Lottery Draw is proudly sponsored by these famous companies: Mike's Sports, Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola,Nokia,MTN,the Intel Group, Toyota , Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh. Mostly by the South African Government. The South African World Cup 2010 Free Lottery Draw is held once a year. The lottery is well organized to show appreciation to global world and to encourage football soccer world wide.

We are proud to say that over US $ 50 Million are won annually in more than 150 countries world wide.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe.


In view of this, your USD$50,000 ( Fifty thousand United State's Dollars ) would be released to you by any of our paying banks world wide. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: FL/371/-4385/6711/UK
(ii) Email ticket number: FL/754/22/76/UK
(iii) Lotto code number: FL/096/22/UK
(iv) File Ref number: FL/0473/6207/152/UK

WARNING!
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim your prize money.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.
You are advised to email the Payment Department Office the information below for them to be sure that you are one of the lucky winners,

(1) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(2) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(3) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(4) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK
(5) Name in full
(6)Address
(7)Nationality
(8)Age
(9)Sex
(10)Occupation
(11) Phone/Fax
To file your claim,please contact our Payment Department Office:
CONTACT: Mr Smith J Tiya.,
E-MAIL: promo2006claimsagent@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE NUMBER: Tel: +44-702 401 74943, +44-702 402 2744

FAX NUMBER: +44-70 275 8745.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!




South African President

Sincerely,
Rev. John Williams
Promotions Manager
World cup 2010
South Africa

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