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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:
  • "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)
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• 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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • 5fdept1@hotmail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Lucky Winner <lucky_draw20@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:06:47 +0200
Subject: CHECK YOUR MAIL.


MEGA -MILLIONS LOTTO.
THE LOTTO PROMOTION
HEAD OFFICE
ST GEORGES COURT ,
2-12 BLOOMSBURY WAY ,
JOHANNESBURG, WC1A 2SH
SOUTH AFRICA.

Dear Winner,

My name is Mrs. Linda Marcus, on behalf of Mega-Millions
Lottery/Lotto Promotion South Africa, I wish to announce you as one of the=
3 lucky winners in the Lotto draw held on Friday May 23th 2008. All 3 win=
ning 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 $350,
000.00(Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars only).

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
(I) Serial Batch No: 83200-0
(II) Winning Number: 9,2,9,4,6 Bonus 25,15
(III) Ref No: 175-02906041-216.

Please contact the under mentioned claim officer as soon as possible for t=
he immediate release of your winnings:The Fund Release Order Foreign Opera=
tion & International.



BARRISTER, FRANK SITHOLE & ASSOCIATES

Name: BARRISTER, FRANK SITHOLE

Cal Number: :+27 -73-606-3673
Email:justice=5Fdept1@hotmail.com

Forward the below listed details for immediate commencement of your
payment process:-

1,Your Full Name:
2,Wining and Reference numbers:
3,Occupation:
4,Country.
5,Age:
6,Telephone & Mobile number:
7,City :

This email notification is auto-generated and it is valid for four
weeks.Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

MRS.MERCY FRAISER

( Zonal Co-coordinator )

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



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Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam