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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.
• 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.
  • +27736368446 (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.
  • jerry_rooty_finance_director1@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: JERRY ROOTY <jerry_rooty_finance_director1@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:47:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Send your bank details immediately


Dear Adalwin Beckenzer


Kindly understand that participants of this program were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from millions of email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotion Program. You qualified for the draw as a result that your e-mail address was selected among many others.

In regards to your mail received, we wish to inform you that the info we got from you is insufficiant for us to proceed.

Please kindly furnish us with your bank account where the fund will be transfered into immediately.Also your residential and working address is needed for us to send your winning certificate immediately we got it from the lottery company, as soon as we got these needed informations from you the transfer will proceed immediately.be advised that all the winners funds was insured before depositing in our bank and based on this reason we have no right to deduct any cent from your fund till it gets to your account.

State them as follows:

YOUR CURRENT FAX NUMBERS AND PRIVATE PHONE NUMBERS.
Account Number:
Full Name:
Bank account number:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Bank Branch:
Branch Code:
Bank Swift Code:
Bank Telephone No:
Bank Fax No:
Beneficiary Name:
Beneficiary Address:


Regards


(Congratulations once again on your winnings!)

Company: GLOBE FINANCE CORPORATION
Company Registration number: 1947/027670/07
Contact address: 27 NEWTON STR, NEWTON PARK, P.O BOX 7706 NEWTON, JOHANNESBURG RSA.

Email Address:jerry_rooty_finance_director1@yahoo.com
Contact person:Dr.Jerry Rooty.
Position: Finance Director
Contact Phone number: +27 736368-446.


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