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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")
  • "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)
  • "00,000.00" (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.
  • +27728106132 (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.
  • canadaclaimagent@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Canada National Lottery" <canadalotteryboard65@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: canadaclaimagent@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:07:32 -0700
Subject: Congratulations, you have won Canada Lottery


From: Ms.Patricia Atkins
Canada Lottery-Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw
1550 Princess Street
Kingston, ON, Canada, K7M 9E3
Congratulations, you have won Canada Lottery!
Attention: Customer AFRSA680
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/05
Batch No. Lotto 49
Winning Numbers (6) (14) (21) (32) (44) (48) Bonus (30)


The Canadian Government sponsors this lottery for the promotion of the 2010
Soccer World cup to be hosted in South Africa.We happily announce to you the
draw of the Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake Lottery International Programsheld
on the Wed June. 4th 2008 in Essex UnitedKingdom and Ontario Canada. Your
e-mail addressattached to Ticket Number: B9564 75604545 100, with Serial
Number 46563760 drew the winning numbers Wed 4TH JUNE 6/ 14/ 21/ 32 /44/
48 Bonus 30 for LOTTO 49 under the choice of the lottery in the 2nd
category of daily three. You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of US$820,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States
Dollars) in cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/05. This is from a total
cash prize of US $11,100,000.00 Million dollars, shared amongst the first
One Hundred and-thirty (130) lucky winners in this category Worldwide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet
representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon, because
this particular draw was selected to promote the 2010 World Cup to be hosted
in South Africa hence your winning information must be kept to enable you
participate in our subsequent draws which will see 500 participants
traveling on an all expense paid trip to South Africa for the Soccer World
Cup 2010. In view of this, your US$820,000.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty
Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by an accredited
commercial Bank in South
Africa. Our African agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact our African
Agent's office. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web
site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00
companies and personal e-mails. For security reasons, you are advised to
keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and
your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous elements. Please be
warned! To file for your claim, please contact direct to our corresponding
Agent in South Africa who will handle your winnings processing for quick and
urgent release of your fund. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please quote your reference numbers in any
correspondences with our designated Claim Agent.

To process your claim you hereby advice to Send the following information
below to your claim agent for quick and urgent release of your fund.

Claim Agent:
Mr. James Khaiya
Email: canadaclaimagent@gmail.com
Tel: +27 72 8106132

Full
Name......................................................................
Address:........................................................................
Nationality:.....................................................................
Sex:...............................................................................
Age:...............................................................................
Phone/Mobile:.................................................................
Fax:...............................................................................
Occupation:....................................................................
Company........................................................................
Reference
No:.................................................................
Batch
No:.......................................................................
Amount
Won:..................................................................
Winner
Number................................................................

Congratulations! Once more from all members and staff of this program that
has ensured that you won this competition. Thank you for being part of our
Promotional Lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Patricia Atkins

NOTE To confirm that you have the winning number for the
Wed Jun 4 2008 draw, do confirm under Ontario 49.
http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=8

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