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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:
  • "euro afro american lottery promotion"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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)
• 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.
  • office.zone3@workmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Easy Ford" <ea24d@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:22:40 +0000
Subject: Contact Mr. Evans immediately you received this notification.

EURO AFRO AMERICAN LOTTERY PROMOTION SWITZERLAND/NL
WEBSITE: www.lotto.nl
FROM: THE DESK OF MR. EASY FORD
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP BID LOTTERY AWARD

Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court Carlton East Gate
Batch: 13/26/DC36


INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199 with! Serial
number 97560 drew the winning: 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you
the lottery award in the 3nd category of 2007. Your name has therefore been
approved to claim a total sum of (US$ 1,000.000.00) One Million United
States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a
total cash prize of US $30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million United States dollars)
shared among the first 200 lucky winners in this category worldwide.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet
representative office in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon. In
view of this, your (US $1,000.000) (One Million United States Dollars)
would be released to you through the assistance of our agent in South Africa
immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contacted him.
All participants were selected randomly from Worldwide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and
individual emails address. The lottery program took place to promote South
Africans 2010 world cup award. For security reasons, you are advised to keep
your winning information confidential till your claims are 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 by some unscrupulous elements. Please
you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our agent:

Name: Mr. Evans Paul
E-mail: office.zone3@workmail.co.za

Immediately you received this message because you stand a risk of loosing
the prize if you fail to claim within four weeks from the day you received
this notification. Contact him immediately you get this mail.

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact
our claim agent with your information:
NAME: ..................................
ADDRESS: ...............................
NATIONALITY: ...........................
SEX: ...................................
AGE: ...................................
PHONE/MOBILE: ..........................
FAX: ...................................
OCCUPATION: ............................
COMPANY: ...............................
BATCH: .....................................
TICKET NUMNBER: .......................

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.
Molefi Oliphant (President)



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