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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:
  • ",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)
  • "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!

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM: SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP



FROM: SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY OFFICE.
HEADQUARTERS 31 BRITON RD COLTON BUILDING RM 108=20
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA
WINNING BATCH NUMBER: (13/26/DC36.) &
REFERENCE NUMBER: (06 08 010 19 30 42
=A0=20
ATTN:=20
South African 2010 World cup lottery Million Promotion team & Online Lotter=
y is proud to Inform you that you have won US$2,000,000.00 (Two million Uni=
ted States Dollars)
WHY YOU HAVE WON
Your E-mail address is one of 7 lucky Addresses that have won in the Weekly=
promotion
=A0
HOW DID YOU WIN
South African 2010 World cup lottery International Million Promotion, is a =
new Internet based Lottery, Whereby internet/email server, this email, sele=
cts all winners Server visits all Internet providers and email address arou=
nd the globe, be it .com, .org, .net and all country web based abbreviation=
s, as you Have .ca in Canada and .Uk in United Kingdom, AOL and hot mails.
We select one million email addresses from all over the globe (Asia, Africa=
, Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Australia ) To run =
the draw; this is a bonus from African Microsoft Society to email Users. Af=
ter the draw 7 email addresses become the winning e-mail address.
Just contact our processing agent / Africa regional Claim department below =
for claiming of your prize and remember to quote Your winning Number and Ba=
tch Number and Winning Email Address for easy processing Of your prize. Tha=
t's it!
International remittance/payment consultation officer below:
South African 2010 World cup lottery InternationalProcessing Manager: Mr. N=
kosi Joel=20
=A0
Provide=A0 the information below:=20
=A0
Name / Address / Marital Status / Occupation / Age / Sex / Nationality=20
Residence / Telephone Number / Fax Number / Reference Number / Amount Won /=
=20
Batch Number:.=20
You have to note that the FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN TEAM, and south African orga=
nizing team service provider is sponsoring this program to create awareness=
for the
upcoming 2010 FIFA world Cup, which is to be host by South Africa.=20
Our International remittance Office (IRO) will render to you complete assis=
tance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of yo=
ur consolation prize. Mr. Nkosi Joel has been assigned to assist you and yo=
ur claims will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment=A0=A0=
Agency Board.=20
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