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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.

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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • winnersagentonclam33@hotmail.com
  • jomoagent@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Jo Jomo" <agentjojomo300@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:35:27 +0000
Subject: 2005 LOTO WINNERS

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
ROBJOHN BENSON INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
PRIZE RELEASE CENTRE

WINNING ANNOUNCED 03/08/2005
Ref: 475061725 Batch: 7056490902/188
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS;
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 2005 from
the Australian International Lottery program. Your name was attached to
ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 3/08/2005.

This batch draws the lucky numbers asfollows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17,
which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You hereby
have been approved a lump sum pay of US$ 750,000.00 (SEVEN HUNHRED AND
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the
total cash prize of US12,000,000.00 shared amongst sixteen lucky winners in
this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States,
Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international
promotions program.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more
your name falls within our African representative office in
Johannesburg South Africa. as indicated in your play coupon and your prize
of US$950,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office
in Johannesburg. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in
our Middle of the year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

How to claim your prize Simply contact our fiduciary agent, JOMO
JO(winnersagentonclam33@hotmail.com.) to file for your claim.
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on
the top left corner of this notification as well as your full names and
address to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed
before END of JUNE 2006; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed
and eventually donated to charity.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Kind Regards
ROBJOHN BENSON
PROMOTIONS MANAGER
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY NO THE ABOVE EMAIL.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
JOMO JO ESQ.
FOREIGN WINNERS MANAGER,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY
UINVERSAL CREST HALL, 145– 167 PARK LANE
BALFOUR – UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001

GAUTENG

REPLY HERE; jomoagent@hotmail.com
phone 0927 7302 70004

GLOBAL MEGA CROSSING.




ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE
WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION

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