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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.
• 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.
  • sjconsult@safe-mail.net (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: winlottocompany@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:18:37 +0200
Subject: FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION




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


FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
today, 22nd of Aug 2006. of winners of the INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS,
held on 1st Aug 2006 as part of our promotional
draws.Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
Individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions
Program. You qualified for the draw as a result of you
Visiting Various websites we are running the
e-business promotions for You/Your Company, attached to ticket number
100-309-7482, with serial number 513-10 drew the lucky
Numbers 5, 9, 12, 29, 40, 59, 76, and consequently won
in the Second Category. You have therefore been
Approved for a lump sum pay out of US$2,950,000.00 in
cash, which is the winning payout for Second category
Winners. This is from the total prize money of
US$13,650,000.00 shared among the Seven international
winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with the INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL LOTTERY insured in your name. Due to the mix up of
some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this
award strictly from public notice until your claim has
been processed and your money remitted to your
account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this
program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will
participate in our mid year (2006) high stakes US$1.3
billion International National Lottery. To begin your claim,
please contact the directors of claims department .
immediately;

MR SUNTO JUDE
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIM DEPARTMENT,
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
EMAIL:sjconsult@safe-mail.net phone 27733402016


For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you
must contact the directors of claims department not
later than 30th of Aug 2006. After this date, all funds
will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondences with. You are also advised to contact
the directors of claims department .
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.

Sincerely,
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
30 CLIFF AVE. FOURWAYS, 1762
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification.PLS CONTACT MR SUNTO JUDE,IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS NOTIFICATION,FOR DETAIL CLARIFICATION, On[sjconsult@safe-mail.net}

PHONE NUMBER- 27733402016.

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