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

Fraud email example:

From: snet programme <securenet6@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:42:01 +0000
Subject: URGENT NOTIFICATION



THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR, SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD JOHANNESBURG REGIONAL OFFICE: 123 RIVONIA ROAD, MORNINGSIDE SANDTON, JOHANNESBURG 4168, SOUTH AFRICA. ATTN: Winner, WINNING NOTIFICATION we are delighted to announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Lottery International programme held in Zurich, Switzerland. This programme has been running for a while in South Africa until recently, the management of Uthingo and National Lottery Board of South Africa decided to go beyond the national region and incorporate Africa and some continents in the world to create awareness of the upcoming world cup in South Africa. All 130 winning e-mail addresses, (both company and personal) were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 129 others, which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2ND category. The following particulars are attached to your lottery payment order: WINNING NUMBERS: ZAP0327 E-MAIL TICKET NUMBER: ZA20109b LOTTO CODE NUMBER: A201097
You are hereby approved to claim a lump sum pay out of (US$820,000) Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars in cash Credited to file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a total cash prize Of US $110,000,000 Million United States dollars, shared amongst the first One-Hundred and Thirty (130) lucky winners in this category worldwide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in the play coupon. All participating e-mail addresses were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from 50,000,000 e-mails from Canada, Switzerland, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and parts of the orient. A size able portion of the slots were reserved for email addresses within the African region through the African Internet society database (AFRINET). The idea is to empower the African continent to embrace sports as a tool to physical development and to encourage participation in sporting activities. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational IT companies in conjunction with the South African world cup organizing committee as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base and to promote the South African 2010 World Cup.
To begin your claim, it is your utmost responsibility to get in contact with your claims agent, who will guide you through the necessary verification exercises. You can contact your nominated claims agent belowMr. B Kadish (CLAIMS AGENT) E-mail: billkadish@yahoo.com+27836628170

The above claim agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds to you, not later than one week after this date. If you do not contact and process your winning prize, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. In other to file for your claim, you have to contact your claims agent with the following information below. 1. YOUR FULL NAMES 2.YOUR DATE OF BIRTH 3.YOUR OCCUPATION 3.YOUR SEX 4.YOUR HOME/OFFICE AND POSTAL ADDRESSES 5.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 6.MARITAL STATUS 7.WINNING NUMBERS 8.LOTTO CODE NUMBER 10.E-MAIL TICKET NUMBER 11.PHONE NUMBER 12.FAX NUMBER IF APPLICABLE 13.AGE DECLARATION WHICH WILL BE BINDING IN A COURT OF LAW Furthermore, should there be any change of address, kindly inform your CLAIM AGENT as soon as possible. Congratulations once more!
RefiloeZi
Mrs. Refiloe Sanzi
Programme Coordinator
Jenny Hendricks
Event Laison
N.B. Anybody under the age of 18 cannot participate in this pro gramme and any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. However, if you have received this Mail and you are under the age of 18years,
Please contact the claims Agent indicating precisely that you are not qualified to make a claim.

Uthingo| National Lottery Board | Securenet |2007.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED® Uthingo and securenetworks are registered Trademarks and are independent of each other.




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