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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 office" (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 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.
  • +27737947748 (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.
  • gfs_claim1@lycos.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "LOTTERY PROGRAM" <lo_program1@smartnet.mu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:01:22 +0400
Subject: LUCKYDAY LOTTO

LUCKYDAY LOTTO
1102 VAN DER TRAAT
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
http://www.luckyday.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the luckyday
Lotto draw held for the month of July 2007.All 10 winning Addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international Emails. Your
email address emerged alongside 9 others as category 2 Winners in this
year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been
approved for a total pay out of USD 1.5M (One million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars) only.

The following particulars Are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL23112
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/5237900/NL

Thus as the lottery stands, your payment falls in the African Region and so
you will be claiming your winning funds through our Southern African lottery
agents called GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES based in Johannesburg South
Africa.This program is been held to promote the hosting of the 2010 world
Cup for the first time in Africa.This is mainly the reason why all winner in
this second category should claim their winning through Southern Africa
region in South Africa.

To file for your claim,send the following details to our "PRINCIPAL CLAIM
AGENT" as soon as you get this message,

1.Your fullnames
2.Your home address
3.Your telephone and fax numbers
4.Your date of birth
5.Your sex/marital status and
6 Your Occupation/Nationality
7.Your E-mail address
8.Amount you won
9.Forward your reference and batch numbers included in this mail to him for
the purpose of verification.

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email and/or phone as
soon as possible for the immediate process and release of your winnings:

NAME: MR.THOMAS MULUNGU
GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES WORLDWIDE
OFFICE ADDRESS:4TH FLOOR FIDELITY HOUSE
BRYANSTON JOHANNESBURG 2030, SOUTH AFRICA
TELEPHONE NUMBER:+27-73-794-7748
EMAIL ADDRESS:gfs_claim1@lycos.com

N.B: Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed
to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on
behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Paul Green
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company

The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,
the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of
other international IT companies.
The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized
to encourage the use of The Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud
to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide.This is also to done to promote the 2010 World first to
be hosted in South Africa and the have won the contract to suplly the
computers to be used during the tournament. This was mostly why the winners
should claim their winnings from South African region.

We also encourage you to visit our website at http://www.luckyday.nl and
Take your chance to play our elottery programs and become part of our
monthly winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis on one of the world's
most famous lotto Service.

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam