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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:
  • "million 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.
  • +27834036202 (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.
  • agent_cole@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "south afric" <safric-world_cup-2010@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agent_cole@myway.com
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:51:29 +0000
Subject: WINNERING NOTIFICATION16/04/2007

                  LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMME 
                            

From : Lotto Manager  Universal Lottery

South Africa.2010 World cup lottery online 2007

Lottery Headquarters: 210-211 Universal Building

Parkhaust, Balfour Unit 1440

johannesburg, South Africa

Batch numbers: ( 18/006/1094/LIPDA/SL.)

Refrence numbers:(LLI/240142/011)

                        

                            

                   FINAL  AWARD NOTIFICATION:

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the South African 2010 World cup Bid award INTERNANTIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 13 April 2007, You were entered as dependent clients with: Refrence numbers:LLI/240142/011 and Batch numbers: 18/006/1094/LIPDA/SL.

Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774  that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of  $1,500.000 Dollars  (one million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars )in cash.This is from a total cash prize of five million Dollars shared among the fiftey international winners in first categories.

                  
                All participants/winners were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award notice personal till your prize has been processed and your  funds remitted to you. This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators, You are therefore directed to contact our accreditted Agency responsible for the processing and transfer of winners prizes on receipt of this message for immediate and urgent release of your wining fund.

 

Thier Contact information as given below:

 

Name of Agency: Agent Cole Agency South Africa
Chief-officer-incharge: Mr J Cole
Direct Telephone line : +27 834036202
Email: agent_cole@myway.com 

 

NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS  IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS AGENCY.REMEMBER, EVERY WINNING MUST BE CLAIMED NOT LATER THAN ONE MONTH FROM THE DATE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THIS NOTICE. ALL FUNDS NOT CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE THE FIXED DATE WILL BE RETURNED AS UNCLAIMED AND DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION/HEART FOUNDATION SOCIETY IN SWITZERLAND.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Mrs Rosemary Ruters

 

 

Congratulations from the Staff & Members of the 
       National Lottery Board Commission                             

 

 

 

                                                    

Mr James Nkomo                        Mr. Rudolf P. Markhams             

(Zonal Co-ordinator Sec.)         (Board Member) 

 

 

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