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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.
  • mundoconsultants09@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: canada board <canadaboard6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mundoconsultants09@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:03:21 +0000
Subject: Ref No: 6/49-08036061-000



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. Annemarie Phillon, on behalf of CANADA 6/49-Millions Lottery/Lotto Promotion South Africa ; I wish to announce you as one of the 5lucky winners in the Lotto draw held on Wednesday 18th Febuary 2009.All 5 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000 international emails. Your email address emerged along side 4 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: 83902-6
(11)Winning 11 17 34 37 41 49 Bonus 5
(III) Ref No: 6/49-08036061-000.

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:

MR. J.J. BESSON
Mundo Finance Office, 22 primroses Sandton Jhb South Africa .
EMAIL: mundoconsultants09@gmail.com OR board_649claim@live.co.za
Contact Tel: + 27-7410 65389

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. Annemarie Phillon
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=6

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. Annemarie Phillon 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) 1994-2009 SA_sweepstakes lotto Inc. All rights reserved

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