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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:
  • "euro-afro-american-sweepstake lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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.
  • khumalo01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "international lottery" <internationallotto2006@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:50:15 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

From Australia/Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham shire NG4 1SQ Melbourne Australia.
Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/04
Batch: 12/25/DC34

Dear Sir/Madam,

CONGRATULATIONS! LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the Australia/Euro-Afro American
Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on the 11th September 2005 in
Melbourne Australia.
.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B956475604545 188 with!
Serial number 97560 drew the winning: 01/10/11/18/19/46, which subsequently
won you the
lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of US$1,120,000.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand
United States
Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total
cash prize of US $2,440,000,00 dollars, shared amongst the first One Hundred
(100) lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our Afro booklet
representative office in Southern Africa as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this, your US$1,120,000.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Twenty
Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by ABSA Bank South
Africa.Our corresponded office/agent in Southern Africa will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you
contact them. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web
site through computer draws system and extracted from over 15,000,00
companies.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised
to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is 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 BE WARNED”. To
file for your claim, please contact our corresponding office/agent in South
Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of
your fund.

Contact information’s are as follow:

Contact Person. Mr Ephraim Khumalo
EMAIL: khumalo01@hotmail.com
TELEPHONE LINE: + 27-82-072-0423


Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 30 days
upon the receipt, to avoid unnecessary delays and complications. Please
quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our
designated office/agents or us. Congratulations once more from all members
and staffs of this program that have successfully won this competition and
thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

NOTE: Please, as soon as you are in contact with our Office/agent, kindly
keep us informed and your fund must be released under our instruction. We
are sorry for the late information.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. Swarth A.Swarth
National Lottery
Australia zonal Secretary General.
Mrs. Teresa Allan.
National Lottery
Australia Zonal Co-coordinator.

_________________________________________________________________
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