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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "deadline" (they are rushing you so you don't have time to think properly)
• 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.
  • claimagent_orgs@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: mary_nonjabs1@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:36:15 +0200
Subject: From Mrs Mary Nonjabs

ATTN:Email Owner,


Ref No: ZAR/J0021-671/SA2005
Batch No: 002472/B8992-60

We happily announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Pick Winners Online Lottery International Email Address draw recently, due to the mix-up of email addresses, the result was released which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e Thunderball Jackpot. 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category A winner in the Pick Winners Online Lottery Draw.

You have therefore been approved a lump sum pay out of US$2,200.000.only in cash credited to file ZAR/7781-P1301/05. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide email Database Directory through computer ballot system and extracted from over 50,000,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place monthly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our International Booklet representative office here in South Africa as indicated in your winning numbers. Your fund is now available for claim.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and emails, we request you to quote your Reference and Batch numbers. We also advice you to keep this award strictly from Public Notice until your claim has been processed.

In view of this, our payment offices here in South Africa would release your US$2,200,000 to you. To file for your claim, please contact our Claims Department; for proper processing of your claim file, do please send your Name, Current Mailing Address and Tel/Fax Number to the below email address of the Claims agaent/Department.

Claims Department
Mr.Anderson Simmon
PICK WINNER ONLINE
Tel: 27-72-067-1710
Email: claimagent_orgs@yahoo.com

N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote the numbers attached to your lottery payment order, in all correspondence with the claims officer.
2.You must contact the appointed agent with your Full Names, Contact Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number and also Fax Number) via email to process the immediate payment of your prize.

Please be aware that the PAYING BANK will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.Be informed that the deadline to claim your winning prize money is 15th December 2006.

Once again congratulations !!!

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs. Mary Nonjabs
Online Co-ordinator

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam