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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "foreign service manager" (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)
  • "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.
  • +27832108873 (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.
  • kelebmadoza@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: omegayebomillionare_internationa@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:59:31 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS OUR LUCKY LOTTERY WINNER

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,

YABO MILLIONARE/OMEGA CROSSING.
Address: # 25 RICHARDS RYLAAN,
AUCKLAND PARK, 0083
P.O. Box 524,
AUCKLANDPARK
JOHANNESBURG 2001
SOUTH AFRICA




INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

ATT: THE WINNERS

FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the announcement to you, of
winners of the OMEGA CROSSING/YABO MILLIONARE LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMS AWARD,
as part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions
Program. You qualified for the draw as a result of our visiting Various websites we are running the
e-business promotions for.You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 102-319-7473, with serial number
743-40 drew the lucky ! numbe! rs 2, 8, 11, 25, 10, 35, 57, and consequently won in the Second Category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US $2,000.000 (Two Million United States Dollars)
in cash, which is the winning payout for Second category winners. This is from the total prize money of
US$14,750,000.00 shared among the Five international winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in
South Africa as indicate in the play coupon. In view of this, your US $2,000.000
(Two Million United States Dollars) would be released to you through the assistance of our agent in
South Africa immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contacted him..

All participants were selected randomly from Worldwide Web site through computer draw system and
extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and individual emails address . 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.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our mid year (2007) high stakes US$1.3 billion
International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact your cla! im agent immediately;

CLAIM OFFICE

FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,

MR. Keleb Madoza
TEL:+27-83 210 88 73.
TEL:+72 011 76 45323(LANDLINE)(EXT 235)
EMAIL: kelebmadoza@aim.com
http://www.omegacrossing.8m.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember,
you must contact your claim agent not later than four weeks. After this date, all funds will be returned
as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR59-744P-6 BATCH NUMBER: 1- 7-255-BCN. Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,


THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
YABO MILLIONARE/OMEGA CROSSING.
Address: # 25 RICHARDS RYLAAN,
AUCKLAND PARK, 0083
P.O. Box 524,
AUCKLANDPARK
JOHANNESBURG 2001
SOUTH AFRICA

N.B. Any brea! ch of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail box. Contact your claims agent
through his email
contact
above.

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