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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "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 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.
  • +447031821779 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +27739969122 (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.
  • johnlawsonlawchamber2@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "tina uma" <tina50uk@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:20:18 +0200
Subject: FROM:Mrs.Tina United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator. (CONGRATULATION)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! GLOBAL  GMEGA INTER. LOTTERY UK HEADQUARTERS.                                                      Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton                                                                                            Nottingham shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex                                                                                            United Kingdom                                                                                            Tell:+44 703-182--1779                                                                                            Fax:+44 870-478-0473                                                                                                                                                                               Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914                                                                                            Ref: OMGL/941OYI/04                                                                                               Batch: 12/25/DC34                                                                  FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT        GLOBAL INTER. LOTTERY UK. PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT. REF Nº:OMGL/941OYI/04 BATCH Nº:12/25/DC34                                                                                                      WINNING NOTIFICATION     Dear Sir/Madam,   We happily announce to you the draw (#984) of the UNITED KINGDOM  Global Mega Lottery, ON-LINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,program held on 10th Nove.  2006   Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with  Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: (11)-(13)-(26)-(34)-(44)-(48)bonus # (02).Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.                and bonus ball number:   You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file TU/9023118308/03.                                                           This is from a total cash prize of £2,000,000,00 shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bimonthly.                                           Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African agents booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £500,000 (five hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our paying bank in South Africa.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is 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. Please be warned !!!    To fill for your claim, please contact our corresponding agent in South Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follow: -   BAR.JOHN LAWSON(ESQ) TELL:  +27-739969122 EMAIL: johnlawsonlawchamber2@yahoo.co.uk       Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before the last date of this program.   To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agents or us.    Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that has successfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program. As soon as you are in contact with our agent, please keep us informed.     Sincerely Yours   Mr.Van Brandis (International Relation Officer.)              N.B. Any breach 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.   All participants below the age of 16 years old are automatically disqualified.

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