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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")
• 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.
  • +27725651324 (South Africa, 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.
  • drtomzumas@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: onlinukpromo_2006@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:37:24 +0000
Subject: congratulations==you have won==call to confirm your prize

UK/ SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMOTION 2006

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/62
Batch: 074/05/ZY367
FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Lucky Winner,

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to notify you the draw (#1032) of the UK/S.A NATIONAL
LOTTERY,
Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held in South Africa
on Friday 26th May 06.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from
Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of
Africa, and North & South America as part of our international
promotions
programme conducted once in a month to encourage prospective overseas
entries. The internet emailing idea was used, since most people are
not
able to purchase tickets and play outside South Africa and UK.
The result of our computer draw (#1032) selected your name and email
address attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 21 32 41 42 43 46 (Bonus 17) which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000.00(
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £1,500,000.00(One
Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's), to be shared by you
and
two others, in this category I.e. Match 6.
You can check your winning by matching your Ref numbers and Batch
numbers on our result checking page in the link below



Your prize award has been insured in your email and is ready for
claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to
expeditiously
contact our licensed and accredited claim agent on a phone call for
Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email
inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to your
designated bank account after all statutory obligations have been
satisfactorily dispensed with.
This promotion takes place Monthly. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office
in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
£500,000.00( Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's) would be released
to you by
any of our payment offices in South Africa
Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated
period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.
Our South African agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him by
calling
him on phone. then after which you can send him an e-mail with the
particulars presented below sending the batch and reference numbers and
these information's below for quick verifications and release of funds.
between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday through Sunday

South Africa Claim Unit
United Kingdom and South Africa Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Dr Tom Zuma
Email: drtomzumas@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +27 725-651-324


Dear Winner,

We need your particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy
of our verifications form,please fill accordingly and submit it to your
claims agent so as to proceed with your winnings.

1. FULL NAMES:_______________________________________________________

2. DATE OF BIRTH________________________________________

3. SEX:_________________________

4. MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________

5.CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

6.COUNTRY:

7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________

8.OCCUPATION:_________________________________

9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF

COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________

10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:______________________________________

11.WINNING NUMBER:____________________________________________

12.REF NUMBER:

13.BATCH NUMBER:

14.AMOUNT WON:

15.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS WINNER :

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, our agent will send you the
contact information of the payment office so you can proceed with
effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Please be Warned!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to
be using National Lottery addresses, but are not from The National
Lottery.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality,
and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they
so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated
with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Any
lottery
double claim detected by our monitoring committee will lead to the Uk/S
A national lottery canceling the winnings. making a loss for both the
real winner, and the fake (intended) claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain,

Very Truly Yours,

Mr. Tony Andrew
(Lottery Coordinator)

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