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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 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.
- jeff_glolottry@yahoo.com
- paulbenoni100@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PAYMENT and ITtoolbox <recommend@ittoolbox.com>
Reply-To: PAYMENT <paulbenoni100@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:05:27 GMT
Subject: PAYMENT would like to recommend the ITtoolbox message, "evaluate report"

http://supplychain.ittoolbox.com

PAYMENT says:

GLO LOTTERY ?
CO-OPERATE HEAD QUATERS
0ffice SB2 6th floor lion Building
Mandela Drive Jhb.South Africa

Attn: lotto winner,
We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Glo lotto ?draw for the promotion of South African World Cup 2010 , this was held on the 7th of july 2006 in Germany, after lunching the South African wold cup Logo handed over by Set Blatha All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 winners in this year's Annual Glo lotto ?Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of $1,000,000.00 Dollars (One million Dollars) only. The following particularsare attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK
Please contact the under listed claims officer via email as soon as
possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr.Jeff Martins
Chief financial Director
Glo Lottery ?
jeff_glolottry@yahoo.com
N.B: Steps to claim your prize
Note that your prize have been insured to the real value of $1,000,000 .00
hence no deduction can be done.
1. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer.
2. Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where
they want their prize paid or sent.
3.Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and
means of identification (international passport or drivers license) to
claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.
Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are
claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.
Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mr. Paul Benoni
Promotions Manager
Glo Lottery ?
-------------------------------------------------
The Glo lotto ? Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies. The Glo lotto ?
Internet draw is held once in a year to promot the South African World Cup 2010. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

PAYMENT (paulbenoni100@yahoo.com) would like to recommend the following message titled "evaluate report", which may be found at the ITtoolbox Supply Chain Knowledge Base.

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