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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:
  • "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.
  • ndana_2010worldcup@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ndana Kosoto" <ndana_2010worldcup@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ndana_2010worldcup@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:46:08 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE JUST WON THE 2010WORLDCUP TICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
CAPETOWN- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA,
REF: CNL/5567890/05
BATCH: 08/0048/Y05

AWARD / FINAL NOTIFICATION
This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/WORLD CUP GAMING BOARD held on the 6th October,2006. Due the
mix up of numbers, the results were released on Sat 14 october 06.
You are attached to ticket number 09-11-21-39-40-46; with bonus number 35
drew the lucky numbers 923, and consequently won the lottery in the 4th
category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of
$565,250(Five hundred and sixtyfive thousand two hundred and fifty American
dollars) in cash credited to file REF NO. CNL/5567890/05. This is from a
total prize money of $11,584,942(Eleven million five hundred and eighty four
thousand nine hundred and forty two American) shared among the seven
international winners in this category.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names/e-mail addresses from Australia,New Zealand, America, Europe,
North America, Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions
Program,which is conducted annually.CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your fund is now
deposited with the payment board in your name. 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 funds ready for
collection. 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 end of year high
stakes of 1,300,000,000(one billion three hundred million American dollars)
International Lottery.
To begin your claims/due processing and remittance of your prize money,
please contact our claims Department immediately quoting your winning number
09-11-21-39-40-46 and reference number CNL/5567890/05 respectively.
CONTACT:
NAME: MR. NDANA KOSOTO(Claim Agent)
EMAIL:ndana_2010worldcup@yahoo.fr
Kindly provide him with Claims Requirements Below:

Name ------------------------------------------------
Address-----------------------------------------------------
Nationality-------------------------------------------------
Age--------------------------------------------------------
Occupation--------------------------------------------------
Phone/Fax-------------------------------------------------
PresentCountry--------------------------------------------
MaritalStatus---------------------------------------------
Gender----------------------------------------------------
And please provide the following information needed. Remember, all prize
money must be claimed not later than two weeks from the date of contact from
this office after which all funds will be returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please always remember
to quote your winning and reference numbers in every of your correspondence
as regards your claim. And
should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as
soon as possible. And further more, any participant below 18 years of age
will be
automatically disqualified by this office.
Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Sincerely,
SUSAN ANDERSON (THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY)
You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with the particulars presented
below citing the batch and reference numbers to this letter between the
hours of
8.00am - 11.30pm on Monday through Saturday.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of Confidentiality, and
press
anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire.
This is
part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse
of this program.

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