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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.

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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• 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.
  • +27736458739 (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.
  • mightyclaim@mighty.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mightywinnings2" <mightywinnings2@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:56:07 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD
JOHANNESBURG REGIONAL OFFICE: 123 RIVONIA ROAD, MORNINGSIDE
SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG 4168,
SOUTH AFRICA.


WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to announce to you the draw of South
African 2010 World Cup Lottery Award International programs
held in Zurich, Switzerland. All 10 winning e-mail addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9
others which subsequently won you the lottery award in the
2nd category. The following particulars are attached to your
lottery payment order:

WINNING NUMBERS: 03/27/33/09/45
E-MAIL TICKET NUMBER: SA2010/9665/10
LOTTO CODE NUMBER: SA2010/97560/07
FILE REF. NO: SA2010/60/84/27/17/36

Your hereby have been approved to claim a lump sum pay out
of (US$1M) One Million United States Dollars in cash
credited to file KPC/9030108308/03.This is from a total cash
prize of Ten Million United States Dollars
(US$10,000,000.00) shared among the first 10 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.

All participating e-mail addresses were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from 50,000,000 e-mails from
Canada, Switzerland, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceanic.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some
multinational IT companies/BILL GATE in conjunction with
MIGHTY WINNERS LOTTERY as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they
have operational base and to promote the South African 2010
World Cup Award to Africa for the first time.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims manager:

Name: MR. RICHARD ALBA
(CLAIMS MANAGER)
E-mail: mightyclaim@mighty.co.za
Telephone: +27 73 645 8739

Please quote your reference, code and winning and ticket
numbers in all correspondence with the claims manager to
avoid unnecessary delay and complications. 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.

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or
before 30th September 2006. After this date, all funds will
be returned as unclaimed.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

signed:

Nelson Black (Chairman)
Molefi OLIPHANT (President)

Chief Operations Officer
Albert MOKOENA

Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAN

N.B. Anybody under the age of 18 cannot participate in this
programme and any breach of confidentiality on the part of
the winners will result to disqualification.

Thank you for your co-operation

Steve Lucas (Zonal Co-ordinator)




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