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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • +27768068220 (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.
  • consultant_impex@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: "Award-Committee Za2010" <c-za2010m@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: consultant_impex@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:22:22 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP 2010 AWARD COMMITTEE

              SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD

          CUP FREELOTTERY PROMOTIONS

 

          

 

        You won $1,000.000.00!

                      

                                                                                                                                      Batch: (13/26/DC36)

Dear Winner,

                               RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FIRST & FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to Congratulate and inform you of the announcement on this day at 11.15 am South African Time of the winners of the ongoing SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP FREE LOTTERY POMOTIONS (SAFLP) held last month. The winning email address was attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-901; Batch: (13/26/DC36) with serial number 5073-11/002010 drew the lucky numbers 43-21-54-37-10-35, which consequently won the Prize in the 1^st category under South Africa lottery board Jurisdiction. No tickets were sold for this lottery as it is a free lottery programe.

 

You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of US$1.000.000.00 Mn (One Million United States Dollars Only) in cash credited to file Ref. no. SAWCBL/250414382205/07 from total prize money of US$10,000,000.00 shared among the ten randomly computer selected International Winners in this category. All winners were selected through a computer generated ballot system drawn from a collection of email addresses belonging to frequent internet/web users around the globe as South Africa shows gratitude to the world for awarding us the previllege to host the prestigious 2010 World Cup Finals in the history of world soccer. 

 

Your fund is now deposited with our paying bank and will be transferred to you as soon as you contact and confirm with our Claim Agents. Due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we advised you keep this Notice strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and your Prize-money remitted to your designated bank account. This is part of our security measure to avoid double claiming  by some dubious participants of this program.

                                                                                                                         Contact your Claim Agents in South Africa: Ms. Elitah Gamede. and Mr.  John mokeona. via Email: consultant_impex@yahoo.com or telephone: +27 76 806 8220 and fax: 27 86 512 0504 to process your claim and authorize the paying bank to effect the payment of your prize money to your designated bank account in your country. 

Contact your claim Agent immediately with the following informations  for the processing and release of your prize money to you to commence:

 

  1) FULL NAME: ...............................................................

  2) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: ..............................................

  3) PRESENT ADRESS: ...................................................

  4) DATE OF BIRTH: ........................................................

  5) OCCUPATION: ............................................................

  6) TELEPHONE NUMBER: ..............................................

  7) FAX NUMBER: .............................................................

  8) MARITAL STATUS: ......................................................

  9) WINNING NUMBER: .....................................................

10) BATCH NUMBER: .........................................................

11) LOTTO NUMBER: .........................................................

12) DATE NOTIFIED: ...........................................................
13) AMOUNT WON: .............................................................

14) NAME OF LOTTERY: ....................................................

 

Note: all prize-money must be claimed not later than one month after notification otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed to our Head Office. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences with your Claims Agents. Furthermore, should there be any change of email address, do inform your Claims Agent as soon as possible.

 

Congratulations once again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program!

 

Dr. Bruce Williams                                                                                                  Chairman Lottery Board                                                                                       South Africa 

 

       N.B. FAILLIURE TO CONTACT US WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF RECIEPT THIS NOTICE WILL RESULT TO CANCELLATION.

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