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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:
  • "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)
  • "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • crossagent008@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "lewis marriam" <golott12@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:40:07 +0000
Subject: NOTIFICATION

GLOBAL OMEGA FLASH LOTTERY
SABC BUILDING
AUCKLAND PARK 2006, JOHANNESBURG
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Ref: SA/9420x2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369



WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,

The Board of Directors and International Promo Department of the Global
Omega Flash Lottery, has setup an email lotto promo programme to encourage
the use of internet world wide for academic and business pursuits.They have
decided to give out prize randomly. NO TICKETS WERE SOLD.You were randomly
selected and approved a Star prize of 2,800,000.00 EURO (Two Million Eight
Hundred Thousand Euro) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

In view of this, your 2,800,000.00 EURO (Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand
Euro) would be released to you by our payment offices in SOUTH AFRICA.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
HOW DID YOU WIN??? HOW DID THEY GET MY EMAIL ADDRESS???
The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 700,000 email
addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer selection from the web,which your email was among
the 8 lucky winners.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of
your funds as soon as you contact her. You are advice to contact her by
filling this form below and forward it to her with the batch and reference
numbers.

GLOBAL OMEGA FLASH LOTTERY : WINNING PRIZE CLIAMS-

LOTTERYCLAIMS APPLICATION FORM-C (Prize Winning Receipt
FULLNAME OFWINNER..................................................
CURRENTADDRESS...........................................
COUNTRY/REGION................................
STATE/PROVINCE......................................
AGE............. [SEX]...................................
MARTIALSTATUS..............................
OCCUPATION...............................................
CURRENTEMAIL......................................
[TEL/FAX]..........................................
ENTRY WINNING INFORMATION
[BATCH NO]..................................
[REF. NO.]....................................

Our claiming agent details whom you will contact to assist you and claim
your prize is as follow:-
CROSS LOTTERY S.A
225 JANSMUTH AVENUE AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
Contact Person: DR KENNEDY WILLIAMS
Email: crossagent008@gmail.com

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Your prize award has been insured and will be transferred to you
upon meeting the requirement of the gaming board authourity which includes
your statutory obligations.We wish you the best of luck as you spend your
good fortune.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,

Mrs MARRIAM LEWIS.

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