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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:
  • "claim 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)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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.
  • +27733367914 (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.
  • smithchambersandassociates@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: charity2010salott13@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:04:57 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER



MOTTO: "ALLEVIATING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD"

FROM: THE MANAGER INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT, GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY, MICROSOFT CORPORATION INCONJUCTION WITH FIFA WORLDCUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD LOTTERY

Office of the Foreign Service Manager
Universal Building,132-133
Park Hurst, Balfour-Unit 1440
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
South Africa.


YOU ARE WINNER NO: 15

RE: ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION


ATTENTION: OUR HONORABLE WINNER,

GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY AND MICROSOFT CORPORATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE IN CONJUNCTION
WITH THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FIFA WORLDCUP SOUTH AFRICA 2010 ARE PLEASED TO INFORM
YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTO LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN SOUTH
AFRICA BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR'S MEGA JACKPOT LOTTERY
WINNING PROGRAM HELD ON THE 6TH, NOVEMBER 2006 AT THE NELSON MANDELA
SQUARE-SANDTON-JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WAS ATTACHED TO OUR DRAW WITH SERIAL NUMBER S/N-00168 AND
IT DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 87-43-25-22-10-3, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE SECOND
CATEGORY OF THE DRAW. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUM OF $1,000,000.00
(ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLAR) ONLY PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO
FILE REF. NO: 56475600545 188 AND BACTH NO: 5368/02 THIS IS FROM THE TOTAL PRIZE
MONEY OF $125,000,000.00 (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
SHARED AMONG ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE (125) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST
AND SECOND CATEGORY RESPECTIVELY.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT
COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM TEN MILLION CONSTANT E-MAIL USERS FROM AROUND THE
WORLD WITH EACH CONTINENT IN PARTICIPATION, AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL
"E-MAIL PROMOTIONS PROGRAM" WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT MICROSOFT
USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE SOUTH AFRICA FIFA WORLDCUP BID 2010.

YOUR FUND HAS BEEN INSURED WITH ONE OF OUR SPONSORS-OLD MUTUAL INSURANCE AND WILL
BE PAID TO YOU BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER (TT) THROUGH OUR AFRICA CLAIM AGENT
(DETAILS BELOW).

NAME: BARR. SMITH THAMBO ESQ.
PHONE NO: +27733367914
EMAIL: SMITHCHAMBERSANDASSOCIATES@YAHOO.CO.UK


NOTE: THAT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR
CLAIM OFFICER FOR REFFERENCE PURPOSE, THROUGH THE CONTACT DETAILS CONTAINED HEREIN.
QUOTE YOUR WINING NUMBERS AND NO. 19. AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL,
QUOTE ALSO THIS SECURITY CODE: GMLMC/NOV/XX06 TO YOUR CLAIM AGENT TO AVOID
MISAPPROPRIATION OR SCAM.


REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED WITHIN 14 DAYS OF THE RECEIPT OF THIS
NOTICE OR FORFEITED TO THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA.

CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF GLOBAL MEGA
LOTTERY, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AND THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FIFA WORLDCUP SOUTH
AFRICA 2010 TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS THIS YEAR.

THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM.
SINCERELY,


MRS. HAFAT ADAMU MRS. CARO SMITH
(Co-coordinator). (Secretary)



OUR SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY, WINIKHAYA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA, MICROSOFT, FIFA,
EMIRATES AIRLINES, SOUTH AFRICAN AIRLINES, OLD MUTUAL INSURANCE, CHELSEA FC,
BENITA GROUP, LUCIN GROUP, JULIUS BERGER, SAMSUNG ETC...

SPECIAL APPRECIATION TO:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

Past winners in jubilation:



Endeavour to email your claim agent with the required datas below :

1.FULL NAMES:_________________________________________
2.COUNTRY:_____________________________________________
3.SEX:__________________________________________________
4.AGE:__________________________________________________
5.OCCUPATION:__________________________________________
6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________________________________
7.BATCH NUMBER:_______________________________________
8. WINNER NUMBER:_____________________________________
9.REF NUMBER:_________________________________________
10. AMOUNT WON:_______________________________________
11.WINNER'S ADDRESS:___________________________________

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