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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 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:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
  • "claim 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.
  • nimrodnkosi_interlottery@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "international lottery promotion"
<internationallottery_promotion001@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:38:27 +0000
Subject: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT :WINNING NOTIFICATION

GLOBAL(S.A)LOTTERY PROMOTIONAL AWARD FOR 2010 WORLD CUP BID

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Dear Sir/Madam

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement made on the ,28/02/2006 of
winners of the Global Mega Lottery South Africa/International Award
Programmed for 2010 world cup, held on 20/02/ 2006 as part of our
promotional draws programme for the world cup preparation.

We use this lottery programme to drum up support and show appreciation to
the different people of the World for their full support to South Africa to
win the 2010 World cup bid, the first in the history of the entire African
Continent.

Participants were selected through computer ballot system drawn from
2,700,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East and New Zealand as part of our effort
to create awareness and open the doors to the people of the World to South
Africa prior to 2010 world cup bid.

You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various websites
You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 195-309-8482, with serial number
041-70 drew the lucky numbers 2,9,27,23,4,30,+5 and consequently won in the
Second Category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$1,950,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for Second category
winners. This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared among
the Seven international winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with the Global Mega Lottery Finance and Company
insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask
that you keep this secretly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to your account.

We hope with the part of your winning prize fund, you are highly favored to
visiting South Africa for 2010 world cup bid

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of
your winning prize, you will participate in our end of year (2005) high
stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent immediately.


NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every
one of your correspondences with your claims agent. REFERENCE NUMBER:
FLS-ZR39-005P-4,BATCH NUMBER: 74-871-BWN.

MR. NIMROD NKOSI
Foreign Service Manager,
Universal Building, 132 - 133 Park Hurst
Balfour - Unite 1440
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
South Africa

EMAIL:nimrodnkosi_interlottery@yahoo.com

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