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419 Scam – "COLLIERS SWEEPSTAKES (JENNIFER COETZEE)"

"COLLIERS SWEEPSTAKES (JENNIFER COETZEE)" is a fake lottery and involving various fake "claims agents" in South Africa. All phone numbers used in this scam are South African mobile phone numbers. If you send us copies of such spam and any replies by "claims agents" you have have received, we will be happy to forward them to the South African police to investigate.

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Example email:

From: <lotterychampionza@mail2southafrica.com>
To: <lotterychampionza@mail2southafrica.com>
Sent: Saturday, 26 February, 2005 13:33
Subject: Winning Notification

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT ATTENTION: (REFERENCE NUMBER: CHAM-789IN4-05 BATCH NUMBER:
564-QL45)

THIRD CATEGORY WINNER

After a successful completion of the third category draws of the COLLIERS
SWEEPSTAKES SPECIAL, held on 21ST FEBRUARY 2005, we are pleased to inform
you of the official announcement today that you have emerged one of the
winners of the LOTTERY CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES SPECIAL PROGRAMS, which is part
of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 25,000 names/email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle
East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 777-78-1105, with serial number
234-90 drew the lucky numbers 10, 22, 31, 90, 38, 40, (18), and consequently
won in the Third Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay
out of US$2.8,000,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for third
category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$112,010,000.00
from which eight international winners in the Third category will be shared.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with FRESENIUM FINANCIAL SERVICES, insured in
your name. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that
you keep this award strictly from public notice until the entire process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your certified banker's
Cheque sent to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We also wish
to bring to your notice our end of year (2005) high stakes where you stand a
chance of winning up to US$1.1 billion; we hope that with a part of your
prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin your claims process;

MR. LOUIS MOROBE.
SENIOR CLAIMS EXECUTIVE,
FRESENIUM FINANCE & INSURANCE LTD.
PHONE: +27 73 5688862
FAX:   +27 73 5688863
EMAIL: louismorobe@netscape.net

for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claims agent within
a week of receiving this mail.

NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: CHAM-789IN4-05
BATCH NUMBER:     564-QL45

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
JENNIFER COETZEE
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
LOTTERY CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES SPECIAL.
3RD FLOOR SANLAM BUILDING,
MELROSE ARCH, JOHANNESBURG.
SOUTH AFRICA.
www.lotterychampion.com

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Rather, contact your
claims agent whose credentials are listed above. All staff of Colliers
finance and Insurance and members of their family as well as South Africans
are barred from this lottery.

When contacted, "Mr. Louis Morobe" replied from South Africa:

Dear Winner

Congratulations on your winnings. Be advised that you will be required 
to furnish this office with the following information

1. FULL NAMES
2. CONTACT ADDRESS INCLUDING CITY, STATE AND ZIP CODE
3. TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS AS WELL AS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
4. AGE/SEX

for immediate verification and Validation of your claim at the South 
Africa Gaming Commission. After the verification, payment approval 
will be granted on your behalf for your prize claim of $2.8m (Two 
million, Eight Hundred thousand United States Dollars)

NOTE: After the payment approval, you will be contacted with options 
on how your funds will be transfered to you. Ensure you call me after 
sending in your information to our office and also to enable me brief 
you further about the processing of your lotto funds.

Congratulations once again.

Mr Louis Morobe
+27-73-5688862

Message headers:

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:45:39 -0500
From: louismorobe@netscape.net
To: emailaddress (Firstname Lastname)
Subject: Claims Process
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0
X-AOL-IP: 196.39.11.225

WHOIS details for IP 196.39.11.225:

     inetnum:      196.39.0.0 - 196.39.127.255
     netname:      ISDIAL-01
     descr:        IS Dial (Internet Solutions)
     descr:        The Campus, 57 Sloane Street
     descr:        Bryanston
     descr:        Johannesburg
     descr:        Gauteng
     descr:        2021
     country:      ZA
     admin-c:      AC264-AFRINIC
     tech-c:       ZT12-AFRINIC
     status:       ASSIGNED PA
     mnt-by:       TF-196-36-0-0-196-39-127-255-MNT
     mnt-lower:    TF-196-36-0-0-196-39-127-255-MNT
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20030715
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040720
     changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
     source:       AFRINIC
     
     person:       Tony Wade
     address:      P.O. Box 2501
     address:      Parklands
     address:      Johannesburg
     address:      Gauteng
     address:      2121
     address:      ZA
     phone:        +28 83 326 9866
     phone:        +27 11 343 25 9846
     e-mail:       arin@localhost.tm.za
     nic-hdl:      AC264-AFRINIC
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 19920615
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20040225
     changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
     source:       AFRINIC
     
     person:       The Internet Solution
     address:      The Campus, 57 Sloane Street
     address:      Bryanston
     address:      Johannesburg
     address:      Gauteng
     address:      2021
     address:      ZA
     phone:        +27 11 575 1000
     e-mail:       netadmin@is.co.za
     nic-hdl:      ZT12-AFRINIC
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20000112
     changed:      hostmaster@arin.net 20030609
     changed:      hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221
     source:       AFRINIC


This scam also uses the following fake law office:

MR ADRIAN KOOPMAN
KOOPMAN & KOOPMAN ASSOCIATES
212 JAN SMUTS ROAD, RANDBURG
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: 27-83-9913468.
FAX: 27-11-5076029.
Email: koopmanadvocates@lawyer.com
lawoffice@koopmanadvocates.com

The fake law office charges US$1,982:

From: "Adrian Koopman" <koopmanadvocates@lawyer.com>
To: emailaddress
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:06:54 -0500 
  
Dear Winner,

Please find attached details of what is required of you to 
claim your winnings. Do give me a call on telephone number 
27-83-9913468 as an acknowledgement to this mail. 

Be so good as to furnish me with your full contact address 
including zip code so that i could look up moneygram outlets 
in your area and instruct you on where to go and make the 
payment of the required gaming commission service taxes for 
US$1,982.00 in the name of my law firm accountant as stated 
in my bill of costs. My own legal charges will be paid after 
you have recieved your funds.

Regards,

Barrister Adrian Koopman

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