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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:
  • "million 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)
• 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.
  • 649claimsconsultant@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: The Canada 6/49 Lotto Board <canada649lottery@canada.com>
Reply-To: ca649lottopromo@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:45:52 +0200
Subject: Well Done!


THE CANADA 6/49 MILLION LOTTO
LOTTO PROMOTION
HEAD OFFICE
22 Kingfisher Avenue Lombardy East
Moderfontein Johannesburg
South Africa


Dear Winner,
My name is Mrs. Linda Marcus, on behalf of CANADA 6/49-Millions Lottery/Lotto =

Promotion South Africa; I wish to announce you as one of the
3 lucky winners in the Lotto draw held on 9th February 2008.
All 3 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch
of 50,000 international emails. Your email address emerged along
side 2 others as a 2nd category winner. Consequently, you have
therefore been approved for a total pay out of Eur.680,000.00
(Six Hundred and Eighty Thousand Euros only).
The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
(I) Serial Batch No: 33902-2
(II) Winning 3 17 26 33 39 46 Bonus 18,
(III) Ref No: 175-02906041-511.
Please contact the under mentioned claim officer as soon as possible
for the immediate release of your winnings: The Fund Release Order
Foreign Operation & International Canada 6/49-Millions Lottery Center
Contact Person:
Advocate Ezra Davids
Mundo Finance Office, 22 primrose Sandton Jhb South Africa.
EMAIL: 649claimsconsultant@gmail.com
Contact Tel: + 27-74-106 53 89
Forward the below listed details for immediate commencement of your
payment process:-
1, YOUR NAME
2, ADDRESS/COUNTRY
3, YOUR WINNING NUMBERS/REFERENCE NUMBER
4, YOUR DATE OF BIRTH/AGE
5, YOUR CONTACT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.
6, YOUR OCCUPATION
This email notification is auto-generated and it is valid for four
weeks. Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Linda Marcus
The Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the African/European Union
Lotto Corporation/Microsoft Companies, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell
computers Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT
companies in order to promote the FIFA 2010 World Cup to be hosted in
SOUTH AFRICA. The lotto internet draw is organized to encourage the use
of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
200 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=3D6
Congratulations once more from all members and staff
of this program that has successfully won this
Competition. Thank you for being part of our
Promotional lottery program. Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Linda Marcus Zonal Secretary
Mr. James Spencer Zonal Co-coordinator
Mrs. Patricia Hope Asst. Gen. Sec Mr. Grey Johnson
Canadian/American Zonal Secretary General.
Switzerland Zonal Co-coordinator For African Winners Dr
Bill Wilson. African/European Head Office
Baumgarten-strasse 15 Postfach 686 Geneva CH-8201
Schaffhausen Dr Peter Martins Head South African
Offshore Payment Office Madrid , Spain . Emily Simon.
CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments,
is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may
contain information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited
from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the
intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution
or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this =
message
in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all
copies of the original message.
Copyright B) 1994-2007 SA_sweepstakes lotto Inc. All rights reserved

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