419 scam: "mohmmed kon" <allen.mohammed@gmail.com> Congratulations! You have won S/ African British Lottery World Cup Bid

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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 british pounds" (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.
- allen.mohammed@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mohmmed kon" <allen.mohammed@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:57:49 +0000
Subject: Congratulations! You have won S/ African British Lottery World Cup Bid

Euro Afro British Lottery promotion
Draw of South African 2010 World Cup
>From Headquarters Customer Services
No: 33 Cavendish Square London , W1G 0PW
United Kingdom W1G 0PW London

DEAR: Lucky Winner

Congratulations! You have won S/ African British Lottery World Cup Bid

We happily announce to you the result of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in United Kingdom . Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: B9665 75604546 199 with! Serial number
97560 drew the winning: 60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you the
lottery award in the 2nd category. Your name has therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of £ 800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand British pounds) in
cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£ 32,000,000.000 (Thirty two million British pounds) shared among the first
400 lucky winners in this category worldwide.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet
representative office as indicate in the play coupon. In view of this, your
£ 800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand British pounds) would be released through
the assistance of our agent immediately he will commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contacted him. Also your
claim included with free flight ticket and one month hotel reservation in
one of the five star hotels.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and
individual emails address world wide. The lottery program took place to
promote South Africa ’s 2010 world cup award. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.

Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our agent
Mr. Allen Mohammed. Immediately you received this message because you stand
a risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim within a month from the day
you received this notification.

Claiming Agent (Mr. Allen Mohammed).
E-mail address is:. allen.mohammed@gmail.com

MRS ANGELA C. ELVIS
ZONAL CORDINATOR.

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