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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear sir/madam" (a standard Nigerian greeting phrase)
• 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!

Fraud email example:

From: "lotto board" <lotto_board_404@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: davidzuma_za@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:10:09 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!!

From Australia/Euro-Afro-American-junostake Lottery

Headquarters: 1a, Bexon Court Carlton

Nottingham shire NG4 1SQ Melbourne Australia.

Customer Service: 580 NCA 85914

Ref: EAASL/941OYI/04

Batch: 12/25/DC34

Dear Sir/Madam,

CONGRATULATIONS! LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Australia/Euro-Afro American Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on the 11th November 2005 in Melbourne Australia.

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Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B956475604545 188 with! Serial number 97560 drew the winning: 01/10/11/18/19/46, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of

US$1,120,000.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of US $2,440,000,00 dollars, shared amongst the first One Hundred (100) lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our Afro

booklet representative office in Southern Africa as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your US$1,120,000.00 (One Million, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars)

would be released to you by FNB Bank South Africa.

Our corresponded office/agent in Southern Africa will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 15,000,00 companies.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is 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 WARNED”. To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding office/agent in South Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund.

contact information’s are as follow:

 

Contact Person. Mr DAVID ZUMA 

TELEPHONE LINE: + 27-78-217-6999

FAX LINE:+27-11-507-6551

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 30 days upon the receipt, to avoid unnecessary delays and complications. Please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated office/agents or us.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that have successfully won this competition and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

NOTE: Please, as soon as you are in contact with our Office/agent, kindly keep us informed and your fund must be released under our instruction.

We are sorry for the late information.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. Swarth A.Swarth

National Lottery

Australia zonal Secretary General.

Mrs. Teresa Allan.

National Lottery

Australia Zonal Co-coordinator.

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