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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:
  • "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "claim 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 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.
  • john.mark@webmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 HOST WORLD CUP PROMOTIONS
<worldcuprom_za017@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:31:22 +0200
Subject:
=?Windows-1252?Q?RE:_YOUR_EMAIL_WAS_SELECTED_(_CONGRATULATIONS_!_CONGRATU?=
=?Windows-1252?Q?LATIONS_!!_CONGRATULATIONS_!!!)=FD=FD?=




























LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMME Ref. File No.: KPC/9030108308/07 Batch: 15/76/EF36 Serial No: SALP97585

From The Desk of Mrs. Dagmar Rodriguez
(An Independent Draw Auditors & Management Co-ordinators)
Euro/Afro/ Asia/America International Lottery
Promotional Programme Award.
# Lotteries Headquarters: 31, Brixon Court, Carlton East Gate, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa.
SUB "LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION" Attn: Dear Winner, Congratulations!!! We wishes to use this medium to officially notify you on the final notification that your Name and/or Company has being selected among the 100 Star/Lucky Winners Worldwide for the South African National Lotteries Promotional Programme based on the South African 2010 World Cup hosting as announced on Saturday, 15 May, 2004 by FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland to be played in South Africa in 2010. You're Name, Email address and/or Companies Name attached to the Ticket Number: (B9665 75608567 775) with! BATCH NUMBER: 15/76/EF36 and SERIAL NUMBER (SALP97585) drew the winning: (04/13/21/27/36/38-45) in this Month's Lottery Result, which subsequently on you the Lottery Award Winner in the 2nd Category of this Lottery Programme. All participants were selected randomly from the Worldwide Business and/or Trade Journals, Web-Site & Email addresses through Computer Super Draw System and extracted from over 1.000.000 (One Million) individual Emails, Companies and Corporate Organizations Names and Addresses as listed from their various Country's Trade and Investment Journals in their Web-site from Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, North - South and Central America to promote this Lottery Programme Award by the Independent Lottery Draw Auditors. You're Name and Ref. File Number has therefore been approved to claim a Total Sum of US$2.000.000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars) in cash credited to REF. FILE NO# (KPC/9030108308/04). This is from the Total Cash Prize of US$50.000.000.00 (Fifty Million United States Dollars) Jackpot to be shared among the first 50 (Fifty Hundred) LUCKY WINNERS in the 2nd Category Worldwide this year 2006 in this Lottery Programme. Please note that your Lucky Winning Numbers falls within our Lottery Booklet Representative office here in Johannesburg, South Africa as indicate in the Play Coupon of the National Lotteries Board Commission Award in Johannesburg, South African Regional Office of this Lotteries Board. In view of this, your US$1.000.000.00 (One Million United States Dollars) would be released to you by our Accredited Representative "Lottery Consultant Claim Agent " immediately he commences the processes to facilitate the release and transferring of your funds as soon as you contact him as allocated and insured under your Ref. File Numbers, approved and signed as the beneficiary to this fund in your name. Also your claim award included with Free Flight Ticket and Seven (7) Days Hotel Reservation in one of the Five Star Hotels during the World Cup Festive in 2010. This Lottery Programme took place to promote the South African 2010 World Cup hosting as announced by FIFA in Zurich Switzerland to be played in South Africa in 2010. For Security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information CONFIDENTIAL till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you for being one of our Lucky Winners of this Lottery prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some unscrupulous elements. (Please be warned). To file for your claim, please phone for claim assistance on the below details our Accredited/Authorized Representatives Lottery Consultant Claim Agent immediately. A telephonic claim advice line manned by qualified and experienced in- house Fiduciary claim agent who will provide and assist you with your claim and further transfer to your nominated account and information on your claim matters,24-hours a day: Name: Auditor John MarkTelephone: 0027-78-229-4871E-mail: john.mark@webmail.co.za Please be informed that the entire winning prize must be claimed on or before 30 days of this notification. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications. Kindly quote your Reference/Batch Numbers in any correspondences with our designated Consultant Claim Agent. Thanks for being part of this International Lottery Promotional Programme and for your participation in this Lottery Programme. "Age Restriction of under 18 yrs applied".Thanks for your anticipated co-operation. Approved, Dispatched and Signed: Yours Faithfully,Mrs. Dagmar Rodriguez (Zonal Co-ordinator Sec.) on Behalf of Mr. Rudolf Phillip Markhams. (Zonal Co-oridinator) Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the National Lotteries Board Commission
Mrs. Dagmar Rodriguez Dr. Woodroffe Adams Mr. Rudolf P. Markhams (Zonal Co-ordinator Sec.) (Board Member) (Zonal Co-ordinator)

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