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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.
  • salotto_fuducialagent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SOUTH AFRICA LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA LOTTO" <kelvinm300@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: salotto_fuducialagent@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:43:54 +0000
Subject: SOUTH AFRICA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

SOUTH AFRICA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

If you are the correct owner of this email address, then be glad this
day as the result of the S.A lotto online e-mail winning draws and
sweepstakes held in China on the 24th of September 2006 has just been
released and we are glad to announce to you that your e-mail address has won
you the lottery in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum
of 500,000.00 GBP
(Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds).

Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket
Number:APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember
to quote your "ticket" number and "lucky" numbers in all correspondence.We
ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims
has been processed and your money remitted to you. Remember all winnings
must be claimed not later than 5th October 2006. After this date all
unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

To file for your claim or for further details, please contact our agent at
salotto_fuducialagent@yahoo.com In respect of our commitment
towards helping the less previledge,we ask that you voluntarily contribute
1% of your Global winnings to any charity organization you desire at your
convinience.
Congratulationsonce more from our members of staff.

Yours Truely,
KELVIN MARCUS.

Global Winning co-ordinator.

WARNING!!! ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY KIND OF TRADE MARK OR
ADDRESS SHOULD BE FORWARD TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO
FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED
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Anti-fraud resources:

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