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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")
  • ",000,000" (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.
  • rossmanza@yahoo.com
  • rossmanza@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND DEPT." <rsazaza4@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:12:19 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FROM INTERACTIVE LOTTERY.














FROM INTERACTIVE LOTTERY GAMES CONSULTING.
THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
MRS.JANETH SAMZA.EUROPEAN/UK/S.A.UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
BID SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD DEPARTMENT.UNITED KINGDOM/SOUTH AFRICA (Customer Services)

Ref / NO: 4690/6103/24Batch NO: 245-379-482Winning NO: 7-13-20-27-33-36

WINNING NOTIFICATION


We happily annouce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Bid Lottery Award International programs held in U.K your "email address" was attached to ticket number; 12324277 serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 7-13-20-27-33-36 bonus number 2, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of £2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION POUNDS) file Ref: FER/8309/1209/26 from the total cash prize of 18,000,000.00 shared amongst ten lucky winners based on their category.All participants "email address" were selected through a computer ballotingsystem drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as including Bill Gate, and some other EU governmental personalities part of their social responsibility to promote South Africans 2010 world cup award. the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent immediatly with this information:


The lottery program took place to promote South Africans 2010 world cup award.

Please you are advised to file the form for your claim immediately through our Agent in South Africa Mr.David Rossman to remit your winning fund to your account. Call him on the telephone line immediately you received this message because you stand a risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim within a month from the day you received this notification.

His contact details are as follows...


CLAIMING INSTRUCTION:

contact our Paying agent on the following Details:


Company: GLOBE FINANCE CORPORATION
Company Registration number: 1982/027670/02
Contact address: Regional Office: Suite 112, Sanlam Center Sentirium Kent Avenue, Randburg, Johannesburg South Africa.

Email Address: rossmanza@yahoo.com
Email Address: rossmanza@gmail.com
Contact person: David Rossman
Position: Finance Director
Contact Phone number: + 27-839804553
Fax number: + 27-119061122

PLEASE FILL THE FORM BELOW AND SEND IT BACK BY EMAIL OR FAX TO OUR PAYING AGENT, TO ENABLE THE AGENT PROCEED ON YOUR PAYMENT IMMEDIATELY.

NAME:...................................................................................................................

CONTACT ADDRESS:........................................................................................

TELEPHONE NUMBER:.......................................................................................

FAX NUMBER:........................................................................................................

AGE:...............................................SEX:.................................................................

OCCUPATION:.......................................................................................................

NEXT OF KIN:........................................................................................................

BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS....................................................................................

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:..........................................................................

Call him on the telephone Line immediately you recieve this mail or you can e-mail him
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.Note.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!








Congratulations from the Staff & Members of the INTERACTIVE LOTTERY GAMES CONSULTING (Lottery Board Commission)




Mr David Rossman Mr. Richardson M Mrs. Janeth Samza
(CLAIM AGENT.) (Zonal Co-ordinator) (Online coordinator )



Best RegardsJANETH SAMZACo-coordinatorEUROPEAN.UK .SOUTH AFRICAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
Yours faithfully, JANETH SAMZA. Online coordinator EUROPEAN/UK/S.A UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS, Open 7 days a week 8am-5pm.

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