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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • omegaagentsa33@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: omegaagentsa44@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:55:50 +0200
Subject: My Dear Congratulation

HE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,

MR.ADAM KARABO.

EUROPEAN/UK/S.A.UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS

BID SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY

AWARD DEPARTMENT.UNITED KINGDOM/SOUTH AFRICA

Ref: FER/4690/6103/24

Batch:245-379-482

Winning No:2-9-22-23-24-30

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily annouce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Bid

Lottery Award International programs in conjunction with Graceland
Online

lottery held in Zurich Switzerland, your "email address" was attached
to

ticket number; 12324277 serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the
lucky

numbers as follows -9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 2, which consequently
won the


lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of $2,000,000.00 (TWO
MILLION

UNITED STATES DOLLARS) file Ref: FER/8309/1209/26 from the total cash
prize
of

18,000,000.00 shared amongst ten lucky winners based on their category.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer
balloting

system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,
Australia,United

States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our

international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies
and

some other EU governmental personalities part of their social
responsibility


to promote South Africans 2010 world cup award. the citizens in the

communities where they have operational base.

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent

immediatly with this information below:

NAME:..................................

ADDRESS:...............................

NATIONALITY:...........................

SEX:...................................

AGE:...................................

PHONE/MOBILE:..........................

FAX:...................................

OCCUPATION:............................

COMPANY:...............................

BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:...............................

The lottery program took place to promote South Africans 2010 world cup

award.

Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our
Agent

in South Africa Mr. BRIGHT ROSSMAN, for the claim of your prize. Call
him on
the

phone immediately you received this Notification message because you
stand a


risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim within two weeks from
the day
you

received this notification.

His contact details are as follows:

NAME: Mr. BRIGHT ROSSMAN

(CLAIM AGENT).

Email: omegaagentsa33@yahoo.co.uk
</ym/Compose?To=omegaagentsa33@yahoo.co.uk>

Tele: 073-060-8211

Call him on the phone or email him immediately you recieve this mail.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information

confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize

released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual
claiming

and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or

unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards

MARIA STEVE

Co-coordinator

EUROPEAN.UK .SOUTH AFRICAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS

Anti-fraud resources:

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