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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "euro-afro-american lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• 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 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.
  • +447031849220 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +27842853014 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27866195193 (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.
  • uk_le0001@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: uk lottery <uk_le0005@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:07:21 +0200
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON




2010 SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY WINNER


FIFA EXECUTIVE MEMBERS 2010 WORLD-CUP.
EURO-AFRO-AMERICAN SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY
SPECIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION
... BE NOTIFIED THAT ON
THE 23rd OF DECEMBER, 2007
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED ON THE
THE COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL BALLOT SYSTEM DRAW, AS ONE OF THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESSES ON THE INTERNET COMPUTER LOTTERY DRAW.
THE PROGRAM WAS HELD BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEADING LOTTERY ORGANIZATION, KNOWN AS...
THE EURO-AFRO-AMERICA - LOTTERY,
THERE WAS A COMPUTER BALLOT WHICH QUALIFIED YOU AS ONE OF THE WINNERS OF THE SUM OF
US$ 1, 000 000
(ONE MILLION, UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
FOR MORE ENQUIRIES AND INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:



MRS. FELICIA SAMPSON)
TEL/FAX: +27 866 195 193
THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT ON EMAIL ADDRESS: uk_le0001@hotmail.com

PLEASE NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET LOTTERY SCAMS, WE COULD NOT EXPOSE YOUR WINNING DETAILS, SO THAT THE SCAMMERS COULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR WINNING INFORMATION.

FOR YOUR URGENT CLAIM...
Call Bar. Jerome Osel
Phone Number + 27 84 285 3014
FROM OUR INFORMATION DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY AND HE
WILL FURNISH YOU WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBERS, LUCKY DRAW NUMBERS, , REFERENCE NUMBERS , BATCH NUMBERS, WHICH YOU WILL USE TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.

WE WILL ALSO FURNISH YOU WITH THE FULL DETAILS OF YOUR CLAIM AGENT AS SOON AS YOU RESPOND BY CONTACTING OUR INFORMATION DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS THE CLAIM AGENT AT THE SAME TIME WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: j_osel@yayoo.com
THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT TO YOU BY:

THE CHAIRMAN, LOTTERY ORGANIZATION,

DR. JOHN PAULDIRECTOR OF PROMOTION, EURO-AFRO-AMERICAN LOTTERY.
1A, BEXON COURT CALTON NOTTINGHAM SHIRE,
NOTTINGHAM NG4 ISQ ESSEX
United Kingdom.
+ 44 703 184 9220

EURO-AFRO-AMERICAN LOTTERY
BRIEF INFORMATION: There was a computer ballot that was organized by the EURO-AFRO-AMERICAN LOTTERY in Zurich Switzerland. It was not an individual lotto playing, but the computer itself picked out from all over the world.
1,000,000 email addresses were selected and picked from the Internet, so those email addresses of Participants that were selected and picked from the internet were again selected through a computer ballot system drawn from among the 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all parts of the world, this is called the computer ballot. And 7 email addresses were finally picked out from among the total 1,000,000 email addresses, and out of those 7 email addresses, your email address happens to be one of them.
You have to note that this program is being sponsored by the FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN TEAM, to create awareness for the coming 2010 world Cup, which is to be host by South
In association with Uk MICROSOFT corporation, the official promoters.
Reply this mail giving us your full names, telephone numbers with your country’s code, your age as well as occupation. If you give us any wrong information, we have the authority to withhold your payment without any legal liability.
Note that over 17 people have claimed that the winning emails and names and countries of origin are theirs, but only by last night did our computer database proved that yours is likely to be the winning one. Even if you are in another country now, you must tell us the country you were staying as at the time you registered this winning email address and the particular year

FILL THIS FORM AND SEND IT TO MRS FELICIA SAMPSON VIA uk_le0001@hotmail.com FOR THE IMMEDIATE CONFIRMATION OF YOUR WINNING.


EURO-AFRICAN- AMERICAN- LOTTERY FORM


To process your claims you are hereby advised to fill this form and return it to us for the final processing of your file.


NAME/........................................................................

ADDRESS:.................................................................
NATIONALITY:............................................................


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

PHONE/MOBILE:........................................................
FAX:..........................................................................
LOCATION :.............................................................
OCCUPATION......................................................

EMAIL ADDRESS.........................................................

TELEPHONE.....................................................................


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