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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:
  • "fiduciary 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +31623117432 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • salemtrust@netscape.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "FROM: SNOWBALL LOTTERY" <snowballlottery1@walla.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:33:29 +0400
Subject:


FROM: SNOWBALL LOTTERY
An affiliate of Snowball (Pty) Ltd. South Africa.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
ATTENTION (REFERENCE NUMBER: SNL/4249859609/WP1
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040SB03-06.

THIRD CATEGORY WINNER.

We happily announce to you the draw of the Snowball Lottery International
programs held on the 14th,
April, 2006 in South Africa. You were entered as an independent client
Reference SERIAL NUMBER:
652-662. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 2752246896 with
Batch number AT-040SB03-06.
Drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ONE MILLION, THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATE DOLLARS (US$1,300,000.00) in cash credited to reference number:
IPL/4249859609/WP1 made available
from a total cash prize of 13 Million United State Dollars, shared amongst
the first Ten (10) lucky winners in
this category. This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for
Snowball Lottery. The estimated
13 million USD jackpots would be the third-biggest in South Africa history.


Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet
representative office in Europe as
indicated in our play coupon. ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATE DOLLARS ($1.3M USD) would
be released to you by our affiliate bank in The-Netherlands.

Our fiduciary agent will immediately commence the facilitation of release
of funds to you as soon as you
establish contact with him. All participants were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through a
computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000
companies/individuals. This promotion takes place
annually, for security this is part of precautionary measures 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 fiduciary agent with the below
details for processing of your
claims.

1. Full Names
2. Batch and Reference Number
3. Residential Address
4. Phone & Fax Number
5. Occupation
6. Age
7. Nationality

After you have sent down the above information, a certificate of Claim of
your cash prize will be sent to
you by our fiduciary agent. You are advised to forward the above
information’s as soon as possible to enable
him attend to your file.

MR. ADRIAN MATHIBE
SALEM GUARANTY & TRUST COY. LTD.
Email: salemtrust@netscape.net
Phone: +31 623 117 432

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any
correspondences with him our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program. Thank
you for being part of our
promotional lottery program.

Congratulations!!!

Ms. Sarah Haines
Zonal Coordinator
"SNOWBALL LOTTERY SPECIAL PROGRAMS".
Email: snowballlottery@walla.com

NB: Any breach of Confidentiality on the part of the winners will lead to
total disqualification.
You are hereby advised to reply to this mail by Phone or email for your
claims. All staffs of
SNOWBALL LOTTERY, SNOWBALL (PTY) LTD. SALEM GUARANTY & TRUST COY. LTD and
members of their family of all ages are BARRED from this Lottery.

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