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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.
• 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.
  • +27833413330 (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.
  • annmotene2za@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "janet scott" <janetscott004@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:18:37 +0200
Subject: GBF INTERNATIONAL INC.

GBF INTERNATIONAL INC.
THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
SA HEAD OFFICE
WESTMOLAND BUILDING
MIDRAND
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Dear Winner,
My name is Mrs. Ann Motene, and on the behalf of GBF INTERNATIONAL/FREELOTTO
COMPANY OF SOUTH AFRICA, I wish to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners
in the Free Lotto draw held on the 16th of September 2006.All 10 winning
addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your
email address emerged along side
9 others as a 2nd category winner in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
150,000.00 US Dollars ( One Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars only).The
following particulars are 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: FL09622SA
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/SA
Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings:
MR.DAVID KOMO
NORTHGATE CONSULTS
DEPARTMENT OF CLAIMS.
COLDHARBOUR LANE
JOBURG,SOUTH AFRICA
TEL/FAX: +27-83 341 3330
EMAIL: annmotene2za@hotmail.com
This email notification is auto-generated and it is valid for Two weeks.
Once
again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ann Motene
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