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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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "my direct telephone number" (i.e. "call me on my cellphone at the Internet cafe where we scammers hang out")
• 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.
  • +27735868061 (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.
  • agentforclaim_za@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SOUTH AFRICAN WORLDCUP" <southafrican2010worldcup@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:26:36 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!


SOUTH AFRICAN
WORLD CUP 2010
FREE LOTTERY DRAW
HEADQUARTERS.
ZURICH SWITZERLAND.
PO Box 1010

Dear winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the 10th of March. All 10 winning addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.. World
cup Draw. Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total payout
of USD$ 2,000,000,00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS) only. Your email address emerged
along side 9 others as a category to the winners in this year's Annual
Lottery Program which will be helding once every year till the 2010 finals
in South Africa.

The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,Coca Cola,Nokia,MTN,the Intel Group, Toyota ,Toshiba, Dell
computers, Mckintosh .And mostly by the South African Government.The world
cup free lottery draw is held once a year.And is so organized to encourage
the use of internet and computers.And also to advertise the South Africa
2010 World Cup world wide.We are proud to say that over US $ 20 Million are
won annually in more than 150 countries world wide.


World cup 2010 south africa . Consequently,you have therefore been approved
for a total pay out of usd$2,000,000.00 (two million dollars)
only.Thefollowing particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622CH
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/CH

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim your prize money.This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program.Please be warned.

To file your claim,please contact your claim agent:
CONTACT: DR FRANK DUBE
E-MAIL:agentforclaim_za@yahoo.com
TELE:+27-73-58-68-061

You are therefore required to send to us the following details without
delay:

1. YOUR FULL NAME ...................................

2. YOUR WINNING NUMBER..........................

3. YOUR EMAIL TICKET NUMBER.....................

4. YOUR LOTTO CODE NUMBER.......................

5. YOUR THE FILE REF NUMBER........................

6. AMOUNT WON...............................................

7. YOUR COMPANY NAME ( IF ANY)......................

8. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS:...............................

9. YOUR CITY ............................................

10. YOUR ZIP CODE..............................................

11. YOUR STATE/PROVINCE..................................

12. YOUR COUNTRY...............................................

13. YOUR TELEPHONE /.FAX..................................

14. YOUR DATE OF BIRTH......................................

15. YOUR SEX........................................................

16. YOUR MARRITAL STATUS.................................

17. YOUR OCCUPATION............................................

18. YOUR BANK DETAILS .........................................

19. YOUR BANK TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER.................

20. YOUR NEXT OF KIN .............................................

21. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF.......................

22. A COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT............

You have to provide these information urgently to enable us begin to
process your file for your payment, the procedure for claiming your winning
prize will be made known to you step by step as we proceed. Then you will
have to work closly with the bank for your transfer to be concluded.

Here is my direct telephone number +27-73-58-68-061. call me for any further
clarification.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

South African President

Sincerely,
Rev. John Williams
Promotions Manager
World cup 2010

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