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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")
• 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.
  • thomasmoyo12@pnetmail.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: steven brown <steven_brown6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <thomasmoyo12@pnetmail.co.za>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:02:19 +0200
Subject: YOU HAVE WON US$820,000.00 /RESPONSE IMMEDIATELY




FROM NATIONAL LOTTERY AGENTSOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD.LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 31, BRITON COURT,KEMPSTON PARK, JHB.BATCH: (13/26/DC36.)FROM: SA NATIONAL LOTTERYTICKET NUMBER: 74454774SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584BATCH NUMBER: BT-4478474121P YOU ARE THE WINNER OF THE COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL DRAW
PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION

YOU HAVE WON ON THE COMPUTER BALLOT, THE SUM OF US$ 820,000.00

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the South African 2010 World cup Bid award INTERNANTIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 30 JUNE 2005.You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584 and Batch number BT-4478474121P.Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of $820,000.00 Dollars ( Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file reference number:IPL/4249859609/WP1.This is from a total cash prize of Five Million Seven Hundred And Forty Thousand Dollars shared among the Seven international winners in first categories.

PLEASE CONTACT ( MR. THOMAS MOYO ) YOUR CLAIM AGENT. FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE PAYMENT
AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators, You are therefore directed to contact your claim agent immediately on receipt of this massage for quickened and urgent release of your wining fund.

His contact information is as follows:

NAME: MR. THOMAS MOYO
TEL No: 0027 839 406 792EMAIL: thomasmoyo12@pnetmail.co.za


Provide him with the informations below:
1.Name: 2.Address: 3.Occupation: 4.Age: 5.Sex: 6.Nationality: 7.Country Of Residence: 8.Telephone Number: 9.Fax Number: 10.Email Address: 11.Draw Number: 12.Reference number: 13.Batch number:

He is your agent, and responsible for the processing and transfer of your winning fund to you. YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS Z-90237-Y67/U4 (keep personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than (1 MONTH) From the date of acknowledgement receipt. Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Once again, Congratulations.

Yours Sincerely,

MR. STEVEN BROWN
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL LOTTERY


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