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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:
  • "parkhaust, balfour unit 1440"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • owenfor2010sa@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "M.M.M.L PROMTION" <mastermegamillion101@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:47:24 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS.

MASTER MEGA-MILLION

LOTTERY

 

 WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

... BE NOTIFIED THAT

 

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS  WAS SELECTED ON THE

 THE COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL BALLOT SYSTEM DRAW, AS ONE OF THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE INTERNET COMPUTER LOTTERY DRAW.

 

THE PROGRAM WAS HELD BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEADING LOTTERY ORGANIZATION, KNOWN AS...

 

...M.M.M LOTTERY IN PROMOTION OF 2010 WORLD CUP HERE IN S.A.

 

THERE WAS A COMPUTER BALLOT WHICH QUALIFIED YOU AS ONE OF THE WINNER OF THE SUM OF

 

US$ 1,100,000,00

(ONE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR)

 

FOR MORE ENQUIRIES AND  INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

(MR. OWEN DOUGLAS)

THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION/FO\REIGN SERVICE MANAGER.

INFORMATION DEPARTMENT ON EMAIL ADDRESS:

(owenfor2010sa@consultant.com)

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET LOTTERY SCAMS, YOU NEED TO KEEP YOUR WINNING DETAILS AS BELOW VERY CONFIDENTIAL, SO THAT THE SCAMMERS COULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR WINNING INFORMATION.

 

 

FOR YOUR URGENT CLAIM...

 

Call Mr. Owen Douglas 

Proccessing Director

Eagle Treasure SA

Phone Number +27 73-028-6645

 

YOU SHOULD ALSO CONTACT...

 

...OUR INFORMATION DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY.

NOTE THAT YOUR WINNING DETAILS AS BELOW:

 WINNING NUMBERS : 80, 35, 11, 72, 90, 41 and Bonus number 1,  

INSURANCE NUMBERS: KISCS433/2010SNLP/2005

 REFERENCE NUMBERS :7017-4162-1018

 AND BATCH NUMBERS: MH4710019

 

YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE THAT

YOUR CLAIM AGENT IS  

 

Mr. Owen Douglas

S.A. 2010

Phone: +27 73-028-6645

 

THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT TO YOU BY:

 

THE CHAIRMAN, LOTTERY ORGANIZER,

 

MR. JABULANI THABO
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION, 
MASTER MEGA-MILLION  LOTTERY.  

210-211 UNIVERSAL BUILDING,

PARKHAUST, Balfour Unit 1440

P O BOX 906171

MARSHALL TOWN 2107
Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

MASTER MEGA-MILLION LOTTERY

 

BRIEF INFORMATION:

NOTE: YOU DID NOT PLAY ANY LOTTERY, BUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED AS A WINNING EMAIL ON THE COMPUTER LOTTERY DRAW.

 

It was not an individual lotto playing, but the computer itself picked out from all over the world.1,000,000 email addresses was selected and picked from the Internet,  so those email addresses of Participants that was selected and picked from the internet were again selected through a computer ballot system drawn from among the 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world, this is called the computer ballot.

 

And 7 email addresses was finally picked out from among the total 1,000,000 email addresses, and out of those 7 email addresses, your email address won on the ballot.

 

You have to note that this program is being sponsured by the FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN TEAM, to creat awareness for the coming 2010 world Cup, which is to be host by South Africa.

Please you have to be aware that we do not want you to relate your winning information to people or group of persons, this is because we do not want to experience any form of Internet scam or someone else to contact us with the same winning information due to your exposure of your winning information. Please you have to contact your claim agent immediately with the following information for your claim. And do not forget to quote your above winning details to your claim agent, especially your Reference and Batch Numbers.

 
Please you are warned, DO NOT DISCLOSE YOUR WINNING INFORMATION TO ANY BODY.
 
If you have any other enquiries, do not hesitate to contact us.
 
We sincerely CONGRATULATE you for being the winner of the MASTER MEGA-MILLION LOTTERY.
 
MR. JAMES CAMERON 

THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION 
MASTER MEGA-MILLION LOTTERY. 

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

 

 

 

THANKS:

MANAGEMENT, MASTER MEGA MILLION LOTTERY

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