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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • phillipsilver01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: national_lottery_sa0@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:42:12 +0200
Subject: Congratulations! Award notification letter

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY
Customer Service /Foreign Claims Dept
Ref:ZA/2031/8161/06
Batch:R3/A312-59
12/10/2006

AWARDS NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
today, 10th October 2006, of winners of the SOUTH
AFRICAN/INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMS,
held on 4TH sebtember 2006 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 you
visiting various websites we are running the e-business
promotions for.

You/Your Company, attached
to ticket number 100-309-7482, with serial number
513-10! Drew the lucky numbers 5, 9, 12, 29, 40, 59, +
76, and consequently won in the Second Category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of US$1,950,000.00 in cash, which is the winning
pay out for Second category winners. This is from the
total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared among the
seven international winners in the Second category,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with the paying bank,
waiting for further instruction from your claim agent
PHILLIP SILVER ESQ, for an immediate
disbursement to you.

Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask
that you keep this award strictly from public notice
until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this
program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will
participate in our mid year (2006) high stakes US$1.3
billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please
contact your claim agent immediately;

Name: MR. PHILLIP SILVER
Firm: PHILLIP SILVER & ASSOCIATES (PTY) LTD.
Address: NED BANK BUILDING,PRESIDENT STR
JOHANNESBURG 2000 SOUTH AFRICA
TEL/FAX: 0027- 83 33 218 29
EMAIL: phillipsilver01@yahoo.co.uk

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 30th
November, 2006.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: ZA/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

MRS.MARIA DU TOIT
PROMOTIONS MANAGER
SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY
PRIVATE BAG X50
AUCKLAND PARK 2006
SOUTH AFRICA.

N.B.Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Beware of
scams, do contact directly with your claims agent.
For further information about our program you can
visit www.lotto.co.za

Anti-fraud resources:

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