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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 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")
  • "foreign service manager" (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.
  • alino_mon@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "richard baloyi" <richardbalo1919@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alino_mon@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:26:45 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

2010 SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP 2010 BID LOTTERY AWARD
SA MEGA CROSSING
CASH GIVEAWAY AWARDS COMMITTEE
PRIVATE BAG X66,
CAPEMAIL 8003
34-1-122/D/052724

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

Attn: Sir/Madam


Based on they South African lottery board Announcement of22th feb 2006.
We are happily to announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup
Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket number: Reference Batch Number is : (
B9665 75604546 199 ) with ! Serial number ( 97560 ) drew the winning: (
60/84/27/17/36), which subsequently on you the lottery award in the 2nd
category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of( € 850.000
.00 Euro) in cash credited to file ( KPC/9030108308/03 ).This is from a
total cash prize of( € 200,000,000.00 Euro), shared among the first 200
Hundred lucky winners in this category world-wide. Please note that your
lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office
in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon.

In view of this, your (€850.000.00 ) would be released to you by your claim
agent immediately you contact him for your claim. 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.
The lottery programe took place to promote south africa ( 2010 world cup
award,) with the world Bank suport.

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 be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 10th
March. 2006 to avoid unnecessary delays and complications otherwise all
funds will be returned as unclaimed, please quote your reference/ batch
numbers in any correspondences with us or your designated agent,

To file for your claim, contact your claim agent immediately. he speaks
English/French

Claim Agent
MR. Abert Nzimande.
Foreign Service Manager,
Universal Buildiing, 132 - 133 Park Hurst
Balfour - Unite 1440
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
South Africa.
Tel: 27 73 229-9224.
Email: alino_mon@hotmail.com

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that
has succesfully won this competition. Thank you for being part of this
promotional lottery program.

signed:
President Nelson Mandela ( chairman.)
Molefi OLIPHANT ( President )
Chief Operations Officer
Albert MOKOENA
Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAAN.
Zonal Co-ordinator
Thank you for your co-operation

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your
claims agent through his email contact bove .

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