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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "fifa world cup lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• 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)
• 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.
  • smithadams20@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: sa 2010 <fifa.m6@msn.com>
Reply-To: <smithadams20@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:24:54 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON $820.000.00 DOLLARS
















































Headquarters:
31, Brixon RD





Calton Building RM 108,
Headquarters: 31, Brixon RD
Calton Building RM 108,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Ck No. 433/453L/SA
Vat No. 7659/00/08
Ref: KPC/ 9030108308/03
Batch: ( 13/26/DC36.)


Congratulations!!

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 Online FIFA World Cup Lottery Award International programs held in Johannesburg , South Africa . Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: (B9665 75604546 199) with ! Serial number (97560)Draw the winning number: (6/8/10/19/30/42), and Insurance number:(KISCS433/2010SNLP/ 2008) which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category.


Your email address qualified for the draw, as a result of you visiting various websites, participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world and no tickets were sold.The lottery programe took place to promote South Africa (2010 FIFA Soccer world cup ).

Therefore, you have been approved to claim a total sum of USD$820.000.00 (Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file Number: (KPC/9030108308/03). This is from a total cash prize shared among the lucky winners in this category world-wide.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information safe untill your claims are processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

(Please be warned)

To file for your claim, you are to contact our prize processing department with the below informations immediately you read this message for further directives.
FULL NAME:......................... ..........................

AGE:.......................... .............................. ........

CONTACT ADDRESS:...................... .................

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:.................... ..........

NATIONALITY:.................. .............................. ..


COMPANY:...................... .............................. ..

CELL PHONE NUMBER:....................... .........

HOME PHONE NUMBER........................ ..........

YOUR WINNING REF:NO AND BATCH NO:....

YOUR WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:................

OCCUPATION:................... .............................. ..

SEX:.......................... .............................. ........

TOTAL AMOUNT WON:.......................... .........

SCAN TWO PAGES OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT/DRIVING LICENSE::



PRIZE PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
Contact Person: Smith Adams
Tel: +27- 834 360 043
Email: smithadams20@gmail.com


Thank you for your co-operation
Keith Cole
(Zonal Co-ordinator)
N.B/Contact Mr. Smith Adams , for your prize claim.

Signed: President Nelson Mandela (chairman)
Molefi Oliphant (President)
Chief Operations Officer
Albert Mokoena
Chief Executive Officer
Danny Jordaan.

This program, is surponsored by the South African Gambling Authority and
surported by FIFA.

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