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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:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "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 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.
  • +27839682572 (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.
  • agentthambo@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "saorg10" <saorg10@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:07:37 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS"SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP LUCKY LOTTERY WINNER

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
Mr Philip Zuma
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO LOTTERY
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

Ref: FER/4690/6103/24
Batch:245-379-482
Winning No: 2-5-9-22-23-24-30.


WINNING NOTIFICATION


Attn: We happily announce to you the draw of the EUROPEAN
UNION INTERNATIONALBONO LOTTERY Program , 2005. Your name
"email address" was attached to ticket number; 12324277
serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the lucky numbers
as follows 2-9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 5, which
consequently won the lottery in the second category. You
hereby have been approved lump sum pay of $2,000,000.00 (TWO
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) file Ref: FER/8309/1209/26
from the total cash prize of 18,000,000.00 shared amongst
ten lucky winners based on their category.


All participants "email address" were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand
names from canada, Australia, United States,Asia, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually.This Lottery
was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies
as including Bill Gate, and some other EU governmental
personalities part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational
base.


To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact our
claim agent with this information:

NAME:..................................
ADDRESS:...............................
NATIONALITY:...........................
SEX:...................................
AGE:...................................
PHONE/MOBILE:..........................
FAX:...................................
OCCUPATION:............................
COMPANY:...............................
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:.................


MR.MARK THAMBO
CLAIM AGENT
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS

Email: agentthambo@myway.com
PHONE:+27 83 968 25 72.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your claim is
processed and your prize released to you. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and unwarranted
taking advantage of this program by non-participant or
unofficial personnel.


Note.Do not wast time in contacting our claim agent in any
of the region or the country that your winning fall within.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards
JOYCE TAYLOR
Co-coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS.

Yours faithfully,
JOYCE TAYLOR
Online coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS,
Open 7 days 7am-7pm.


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