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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:
  • "global mega lottery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claim 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.
  • megalucknet01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Alan Smith" <alan_lucknet02@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:20:48 +0200
Subject: ITS ALL ABOUT LUCK!!

FROM: THE DESK OF THE INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

Dear: Sir/Madam

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you that you emerged as a winner in the Global Mega
Lottery South Africa/International Promotion draw, held on 22/01/2006.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia, Australia, and Europe, as part of our electronic
business Promotions Program.

You qualified for the draw as a result of your visit in the numerous
websites we are running the integrated business promotions for.

You were attached to ticket number 101-657-3826, with serial number 234-012
that drew these lucky numbers 5,21,25,32,33,45+7 and consequently won in
the jackpot category.

You have therefore been approved for the penultimate pay out of
US$1,950,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for the jackpot winner.
This is from the total prize money of US$11,700,000.00 shared among the six
international winners in the jackpot category.

CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with the Global Mega Lottery Finance Company and
it is rightly insured in your name.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we
recommend that you keep this notification to your chest until your claim has
been duely processed and your money remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims.

We hope with a part of your prize, you
will participate in second quarter high stake draw of approximately
US$30,000,000(million).

To effect your claim, please contact our payout
agent immediately in the person of,

MR. ALAN SMITH,
(International Payout Manager),
Universal Building,
132-133 Auckland Park
Gauteng 2001
Johannesburg,South Africa.

MOBILE:27-730-573-027
Email: megalucknet01@hotmail.com

Remember, you must contact your claim agent before the second quarter draw
in order not to forfeit your prize money which will be declared unclaimed by
the company.

NOTE: In order to ascertain the veracidity of your claim, please remember to
quote your reference and batch number.
REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR39-825P-4,
BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

N.B.
Any breach of
confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.

Sincerely yours,

The International Promotions Manager,
Global Mega Lottery Pty Ltd
Universal Buildiing,
132-133 AucklandPark,
Gauteng 2001,
Johannesburg, SouthAfrica.

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