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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")
  • "part of our security protocols" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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)
  • "hundred thousand 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 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.
  • +447011139690 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • agent.marvinkitwillss@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WORLD CUP LOTTERY" <soccersafa@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:12:00 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

                                                  

      SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY DRAW 

 HEADQUARTERS. LIVERPOOL LONDON UK.

 

Dear Lucky Winner ,

 

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in our Free Lotto Draw held by UTC/GMT 22:18 on Thursday 8th of February, 2007. Your mail address emerged along side with the nine others as a category of winners in this year's annual Safa 2010 free lottery draw. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 54,000,000 international emails through a special program designed for this lottery draw. The program is known as Random Access Program (RAP). So don't be surprise that you are one of our lucky winners. The aim of this lottery draw promotion is to surprise our lucky winners. You have therefore been approved to claim a cash prize of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only.

 

The World Cup 2010 Free Lottery Draw is proudly sponsored by these famous companies: Mike's Sports, Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, Mtn, Fubu, Toyota, Toshiba, Dell computers and mostly by the South African Government. This free lottery draw is well organized by they South African Football Association (Safa) and been used to show appreciation to global world for voting South Africa creditable to host the Fifa 2010 World Cup Football Soccer Game and to encourage football soccer game worldwide.

 

we are pround to say that US$5,000,000.00 (Five Million United States Dollars)are been won annually in more that 152 countries world wide every 8th of November. The following Particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

 

(i) Winning numbers: FL/371/-4385/6711/UK
(ii) Email ticket numbers: FL/754/22/76/UK
(iii) Lotto code numbers: FL/096/22/UK
(iv) File Ref numbers: FL/0473/6207/152/UK

 

OUR PREVIOUS ANNUAL LUCKY WINNERS CELEBRATION IN LIVERPOOLUK. 

 

To file your claims of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), you have to fill the below information's and submit to our fiduciary claims agent for documentation and processing of your lottery fund:

 

Your Full Name.......
Your Sex Gender......
Your Age......
Your Country......
Your Nationality......
Your Occupation......
Your Mobile Number......
Your Winning Numbers......
Your Email Ticket Numbers......
Your Lotto Code Numbers......
Your File Ref Numbers......    

 

CONTACT:MR. MARVIN KIT WILLS

E-mail:agent.marvinkitwillss@yahoo.com.hk
PHONE NUMBER: +447011139690

 

Note that all prizes must be claimed before the expiration of 14 days after this notification.

 

For security reasons, you have to keep your winning information's confidential away from public notice until your prize money is been released to you. Because any body that sees your winning information's can use them to claim your prize money. This is part of our security protocols to avoid double claiming and abuse of this program. Please be warned.

                  

 

REV. JOHN WILLIAMS                                              2006  SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD    PROMOTION MANAGER                                    CUP 2010 LOTTERY LUCKY WINNERS

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