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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "million united states dollars" (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 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.
  • +27731520212 (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.
  • mightyclaim_2010sa@mighty.co.za (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MIGHTY WINNERS <mightywinnings@katamail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:42:58 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD
JOHANNESBURG REGIONAL OFFICE: 123 RIVONIA ROAD, MORNINGSIDE SANDTON,
JOHANNESBURG 4168,
SOUTH AFRICA.

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup

Lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. All 10
winning e-mail addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international emails.

Your email address emerged alongside 9 others which
subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd category. The following
particulars are attached to your lottery payment order:

WINNING NUMBERS: 03/27/33/09/45
E-MAIL TICKET NUMBER: SA2010/9665/10
LOTTO CODE NUMBER: SA2010/97560/07
FILE REF. NO: SA2010/60/84/27/17/36

Your hereby have been approved to claim a lump sum pay out of (US$1M) One
Million United States Dollars in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03.This
is from a total cash prize of Ten Million United States Dollars
(US$10,000,000.00) shared among the first 10 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 indicated in the play coupon.
All participating e-mail addresses were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from 50,000,000 e-mails from Canada, Switzerland, Australia,
United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational IT
companies/BILL GATE in conjunction with MIGHTY WINNERS LOTTERY as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base and to promote the South African 2010 World Cup Award to
Africa for the first time.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims manager:
Name: MR. REX BONGANI
(CLAIMS MANAGER)
E-mail: mightyclaim_2010sa@mighty.co.za
Telephone: +27 73 152 0212

Please quote your reference, code and winning and ticket numbers in all
correspondence with the claims manager to avoid unnecessary delay and
complications. For security reasons, 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 30th July
2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

signed:
Nelson Black (Chairman)

Molefi OLIPHANT (President)

Chief Operations Officer
Albert MOKOENA

Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAN

N.B. Anybody under the age of 18 cannot participate in this programme and any
breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.

Thank you for your co-operation

Steve Lucas (Zonal Co-ordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

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