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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "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 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.
  • @worldemail.com

Fraud email example:

From: Southafrica Worldcup2010 <southafricaworldcup2010@worldemail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:57:21 -0500
Subject: RESPOND AS TO CONFIRM THE RECIEPT OF THIS MAIL.

 

          

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY DRAW 

 

 

 

Dear winner,

 

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lottory draw held on the April 2006.Also be noted that,all 10 lucky winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails from the World cup Draw. Consequently you are therefore been approved for a total payout of USD$ 1,000,000,00  (ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) only.

 

The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,Coca-Cola,Nokia,MTN,The Intel Group, Toyota ,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mc kintosh and most South African Government.The world cup free lottery draw is held once a year and is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers,financial upliftments to the common man and  advertising of the World Cup world wide.

 

We are proud to say that over US$10 Million are won annually in more than 150 elected member's countries world wide.

 

World cup 2010 in south africa help's in this matter,while we have therefore approved to your winning the total payment sum of US$1,000,000.00  (One Million Dollars) only.The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

 

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

 

Finally for security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential,till your winning prize is been recieved.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.

 

To file your claim,please contact our fiduciary agent:

Contact: ROBERT BONK. 

Phone Number :+4470240

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

            

 

   South African President

Sincerely,
Rev. Mark Morris
Promotions Manager
World cup 2010
South Africa

    

--- Web based Email via @WorldEmail.com---

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