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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "first national bank" (not involved with lotteries)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "winter bonta" <drwinterbontafnb@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:46:37 +0000
Subject: First National Bank of South Africa(Transfer Document)

First National Bank of South Africa .
Foreign Exchange and Remittance Dept.
FNB.

ATTN: EVANGELINE PUDA MENDOZA

Your information was just forwarded to the desk of my department by your
claim agent (Mr. Larry Williams) , and the transfer of your fund is being
validated, I am attaching with this mail, a scanned copy of the transfer
document, which fully explain the transfer process, as I did promised you in
our telephone discussion yesterday

You are required to make available to this department, reconfirmation of
your bank telephone and fax number, and also you bank account number, where
you want your fund to be transferred into.

More so, you are also required to submit to the desk of my department a BAV
fee of US$972, as stated in the document, we are most delighted to inform
you that as soon as the transfer requirements are made available to the desk
of the department, your fund will hit your Account between 48hour of receipt
of the transfer requirement.

This payment is necessary because the lottery board did insure your winning
with a high insurance bond that means, you will receive your full winnings
without any deductions whatsoever and for the safety of your winning fund.

Below is the information with which you have to make the payment with via
Money gram, in any of the money gram outlet in your city.

NAME: IHEMEFULA UCHENNA
ADDRESS: JOHANESSBURG , SOUTH AFRICA.


As soon as the payment is made with the above information, do send to me the
slip with which you make the payment with, so that I can attach to your file
to the South Africa Reserve bank for transfer approval.

Also be warned that delay from your path in providing the transfer
requirement (BAV fee) might be jeopardous to this transfer.

Yours truly,
Dr. Winter Bonta
Director: Foreign Exchange and Remittance Dept.

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