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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")
  • "to your nominated bank account" (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.
  • +27735398288 (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.
  • alextambo202office@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: southafrica 2010woldcup <l.dsf28@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:32:40 +0200
Subject:



SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP FREELOTTERY PROMOTIONS!




You won $950.000.00!
Dear Winner,
RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FIRST & FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to congratulate and inform you of the announcement made on this day at 11.15am South African time of the lucky winners of the ongoing SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP FREE LOTTERY PROMOTIONS (SAWCFLP) held on the 12th of last month. This free lottery program is part of our gratitude to the world and FIFA for awarding Africa a chance to host the prestigious soccer world finale in 2010.
All e-mail addresses entered in this program were presented by our International marketing department in conjunction with the world wide web, yellow pages, humanitarian Organizations, and the promotion companies or countries in Europe, Oceania,North & South America, the Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The winning email address was attached to ticketnumber 023-0148-790-901; Batch:(13/26/DC36) with Serialnumber 5073-11/002010 drew the luckynumbers 43-21-54-37-10-35, which consequently won the Prize in the 1st category under South Africa lottery board Jurisdiction. No tickets were sold for this lottery, as it is a freelottery program. Much as television is free because advertising by commercial sponsors pay the cost, SAWCFLP is being possible because our advertisers absorb the prize costs and business expense required to make this winning opportunity available to you.

You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of €uro €550.000.00 (FIVE Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros Only)in cash credited to file Ref. no.SAWCFLP/250414382205/07 from total prize money of €5,500.000.00 shared among the ten randomly computer-selected International Winners in this category. All winners were selected through a computer generated ballot system drawn from a collection of email addresses belonging to frequent internet/web users around the globe as South Africa shows gratitude to the world for awarding us the privilege to host the prestigious 2010 World Cup Finals in the history of world soccer.
Your prize money is now deposited with our paying bank and will be transferred to you assoon as you contact and confirm with our Claim Agents.

Due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we advised you keep this Notice strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and your Prize-money remitted to your designated bank account. This is part of our security measure to avoid double claiming by some dubious participants of this program. Contact your Claim Agents in Mr.ALEX Tambo, via E-Mail:alextambo202office@yahoo.com
to process your claim and authorize the paying bank to effect the payment of your prize money to your nominated bank account in your country.
Contact your claim Agent immediately with the following informations to process and release of your prize money:
1) FULL NAME: ......................
2) COUNTRY OFORIGIN:.................
3) PRESENT ADRESS:...................
4) DATE OF BIRTH:....................
5) SEX:..............................
6) OCCUPATION:.......................
7) TELEPHONE NUMBER:.................
8) FAX NUMBER:.......................
9) MARITAL STATUS:...................
10)TICKET NUMBER: ....................
11)BATCH NUMBER: .....................
12)SERIAL NUMBER: ....................
13)LUCKY NUMBER: .....................
14)REF. NUMBER: ......................
15)DATE NOTIFIED: ....................
16)AMOUNT WON: .......................
17)NAME OF LOTTERY: ..................
Note: The Grand Award recipient forfeits the cash award if not claimed within thrity days of notification or the notification mail is retruned as undeliverable.
Congratulations once again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program!

Dr. Bruce Williams Chairman,Lottery Board,South Africa

N.B. FAILLIURE TO CONTACT US WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF RECIEPT THIS NOTICE WILL RESULT TO CANCELLATION. TELEPHONE NUMBER +27 73 53 98 288
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