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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")
  • "claims 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 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.
  • +27769420534 (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.
  • vinceabey05@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: cafsafa lottery <caf_safa_04@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <vinceabey05@aim.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:46:42 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS.



CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!! We are pleased to inform you today 2nd July,2007. as one of the luckywinners of our Soccer World Cup Draws held by Confederation of Africa Football (CAF)/ South African Football Association (SAFA) to promote the first ever soccer world cup in Africa, which will be held 2010 inSouth Africa.Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballotsystem drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail addresses of dividuals and companiesfrom Africa, North and South America,Asia,oceania, Europe, as part ofour electronic business Promotions Program. You were qualified for this draw as a result of you visiting variouswebsites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for Your e-mail address attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: SAFA 2010/AFRICA 2007, BATCH NUMBER:154-02I-CAF. with serial number 000-19 drew The lucky numbers 2-2-14-13-6-36 and consequently won in the second quarter of the 2007 draw. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay outof $2,200,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payoutfor First category winners.
This is from the total prize money of US$15,400,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the First category. CONGRATULATIONS! Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents.WINDSOR FINANCE LIMITED. as we have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may arise from emails of winners and numbers,we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processedand your money remitted to you. This is part of our Security Protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.2 billion International Lottery.
To begin your claim,please contact our agent who also will be your claims agent.
VINCENT ABEY CLAIMS/FINANCE MANAGER WINDSOR FINANCE LIMITED SANDTON,SOUTH AFRICA TEL:+27-76-942-0534FAX:+27-11-219-7119EMAIL:vinceabey05@aim.com For due processing and remittance of your prize money,Remember you mustcontact your claim agent not later than two weeks After this date, otherwise,all funds will be returned as Unclaimed.
Please contact your claims manager and provide him with the requestedinformation so that he can Expedite the processing of your claims.
NAME:_______________________________________________________________ COUNTRY:____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS:____________________________________________________________ CITY:____________________STATE/PROV:________________________________ ZIP/POSTAL:_________________________________________________________ PHONE:________________FAX:__________________________________________ EMAIL:______________________________________________________________ REFERENCE NUMBER:___________________________________________________ BATCH NUMBER:_______________________________________________________ AGE:________________________________________________________________
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, pleaseremember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in every one of yourcorrespondences with your agent. Furthermore you are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and numbers from the public in line with our companysecurity protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals. Again, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions program. Yours sincerely, Customers Service Department Cafsafa Lotteries. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners willresult to disqualification.
Anybody below the age of 18 is automatically disqualified,You areobliged to donate 10% of your winning to any listed charity organizationin South Africa. Please contact your claims agent.

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