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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 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:
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million united states 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)
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
  • ",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!
• 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.
  • woodgateallan@aol.com

Fraud email example:

From: soccer lottery <safi208@msn.com>
Reply-To: <woodgateallan@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:22:50 +0000
Subject: CONTACT THE AGENT ASAP(YOUR EMAIL HAS WON)
















SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP
2010 FREE LOTTERY
DRAW

HEADQUARTERS:
JOHANESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you that
you are a winner in one of the 25 lucky winners in our Fifa 2010 South
African Soccer World Cup Free Lotto Draw held
by UTC/GMT is 22:18 on Friday 16th January 2009. Your email address emerged
along side with the twenty four others as a category of winners in this year's
Annual free lottery draw. All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. You have therefore
been notified to claim your winning prize of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred
Thousand United States
Dollars).



In
addition to your winning, you have been selected as one of they 85 lucky winners
who will be issued free tickets and hotel accomodation to watch the Fifa World
Cup 2010 live in South
Africa.









The World Cup 2010 Free Lottery Draw are proudly
sponsored by these famous companies: Adidas,Coca Cola,Kia Motors,Nokia,MTN,
Emirates, Toyota, Toshiba, Dell computers
and mostly by the South African Government.
The South African World Cup 2010 Free Lottery Draw is
held once a year. This free lottery draw is to show appreciation to global world
and to encourage football soccer world wide.

We are proud to say that
US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million United States Dollars) are been won
annually in more than 152 countries world wide. The following particulars are
attached to your lotto payment order:

i) Winning Numbers:
FL/371/-4385/6711/UK
ii) Email Ticket Number: FL/754/22/76/UK
iii) Lotto
code Number: FL/096/22/UK
iv) File Ref Number:
FL/0473/6207/152/UK
V) Winner's Position: 5th

To file your
claims of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), you have
to fill the below information completely and submit to our fiduciary claims
agent for documentation and processing of your lottery winning
certificate:

Surname:...............................................................................................................................................
Other Names
:......................................................................................................................................
Country
:.................................................................................................................................................
Contact
Address:.................................................................................................................................
Sex
Gender:...........................................................................................................................................
Age:...........................................................................................................................................................
Occupation:.............................................................................................................................................
Phone
Number:......................................................................................................................................


please you are requested to send the above requested information to the
claim agent to the underlisted email address
Dr. Allan
Woodgate







woodgateallan@aol.com or allan_woodgate@msn.com





On
behalf of the Board of Trustees of South African Football
Association (SAFA) Draw Promotion,
kindly accept our warmest congratulations on your
winning.

Sincerely,
Rev. John
Williams
Promotions Manager


FIFA World
Cup™
Sponsors

DISCLAIMER:Any views of
this e-mail are those of the sender except where the sender specifically states
them to be that of South African 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP lottery office or its
subsidiaries.The message and its attachments are for designated
recipient(s) only and may contain privileged, proprietary and private
information. If you have received it in error, kindly delete it and notify the
sender immediately.THE FIFA SOCCER lottery unit accepts no liability
for any loss or damage resulting directly and indirectly from the transmission
of this e-mail message.

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