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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "processing fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. )
  • "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• 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.
  • +27839851350 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: kenneth zuma <kennethzuma80@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 00:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BELIEVE ME, YOU ARE TRULY ONE OF OUR LUCKY WINNERS, STOP THINKING NEGATIVELY


Dear Edda.

Thanks for your mail and the contents, but I have not understood how serious you are over your claim.

I am not arguing about what you said over your past experience and I well know the reason as I have earlier informed you on my past emails.

I have earlier made you to understand that all the former staffs by then has been dismissed and new departments along with new staffs have been employed to support and defend our reputation over this noble program.

Apart from this, there is the toughest Security binding this program and that is the Insurance Bond Policy which has established to protect all the winning prizes until all funds gets to their beneficiaries..

Before you receive this notification winning letter, your winning prize has been under Insurance coverage which is made with all your winning details along with your winning e-mail address and now your name and winning details is standing you erectly as the beneficiary of this fund, and as a matter of fact or due to the Insurance Coverage, we have no access to your winning prize, I.E to say that we can not have the veto power to make any deduction of money from your winning prize until the prize is transferred to your bank account.

Now if you have not yet received any reply of the 14 mails you previously sent to the old staff/Agent, I have told you that the reason was because they have been dismissed from the departments and they are no longer participating in this program, you don’t have to contact them any longer.

Now I have received your winning certificate which I will scan and forward to you on Friday and I would like you to kindly remind me on Friday to send it to you as a proof of your winning.

Listen my sister; I promise you this is never a joking matter, stop having negative mind over your benefit, which is still here under our International Remittance Department Under South African Reserve Bank.

I have told you that if you have doubts over your claim, then kindly come over here and witness the truth of this program and the process the required Clearance release documents to effect the transferring of the money to your bank account.

I am not asking you for any money in regards to my legal services but the fee that was required from you and from all the lucky winners like you is the only fee which you have to pay for the processing of the required documents to be processed from various Ministries here.

If you would like to appear in person, then you will only be required to come along with the official processing fee only and you need not to pay for any other fee.

But whereby you can not be able to come down here in person then you will only have to contact any of our assigned processing lawyer who can then stand on your behalf to apply and do the required process, but then you still have to send him the official processing fee to process the required documents and also pay him his service charges which you can negotiate with him in regards.

I don’t know what else to tell you about this, it has been taking my time to always explain this and making repetition of words over the same subject matter.

Please follow my advice and I promise you will never regret knowing me because I have not cheated any one nor will cheat you in regards.

Your winning prize is here in South Africa only waiting for the Clearance release documents to effect the transfer to any of your nominated bank account.

Many other winners have claimed their lucky prizes and there is only one way and procedure to claim your money which I have told you, believe me because it will not benefit me if you failed to claim yours too and that is why I have been doing my best to explain this matter to you more properly.

Read my mails very carefully so that you will understand all the points I am not joking and will never joke with any one as long as I am concerned.

Thank you and Congratulations.

From yours truly,
Agent Kenneth Zuma,
Try and call me for more information ( +27 83 985 1350 )

Edda Wagstein <edda1786@mozartmail.info> wrote:
Hello my friend!

A few hours ago I saw a beautiful bird whiz around my room. I think it was a dove pigeon. At last it found its way out through the open door. I was wondering if it is a portent.

I am still unassured and I am unclear how I had been chosen for this prize.

Please do give me some words of advice about an issue that is making me perplexed, what about EU bank investigations?

For sure it is not any hassle to send my personal credentials, as you ask.

Please do reply. I look forward to read something accommodating from you.

Ms Edda Wagstein

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