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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.
  • attorney.markgolden@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLDCUP TICKET" <southafrica2010worldcupticket3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: attorney.markgolden@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:44:09 +0000
Subject: {Disarmed} ****CONGRATULATIONS*** YOU HAVE WON IT CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER

 

SOUTH AFRICA

Suid-Afrika

South African Football Association

                   

 

                                  SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP
                                            LOTTERY 2010

Lottery Headquarters: 
51, Brixton Court,
Carlton,EastGate 
Johannesburg.

 

                                              

  CONGRATULATIONS. THE SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL
  ASSOCIATION,SAFA IS PROUD TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU HAVE
  JUST WON FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH STERLINGS POUNDS

   (500,000.00) 

  THIS LOTTERY IS SPONSORED BY SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL
  ASSOCIATION, SAFA WITH FIFTY-SIX,56 COOPERATE BODIES.

  SOUTH AFRICA WILL BE HOSTING THE SOCCER WORLD CUP IN
  THE YEAR 2010.THIS WILL BE THE FIRST EVER WORLD CUP TO
  BE HELD IN THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA. AND WE ARE
  CELEBRATING THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY WITH THIS
  LOTTERY. WE ARE ALSO USING THIS LOTTERY TO CREATE
  AWARNESS TOWARDS THE HOSTING OF THE WORLD CUP IN 2010
  IN SOUTH AFRICA.

  DON'T BE SURPRISE THAT YOU ARE ONE OF OUR WINNERS.
  THE AIMS OF THIS LOTTERY IS TO SURPRISE OUR WINNERS.

  HOWEVER NO PREVIOUS NOTIFICATION IS GIVEN BEFORE YOUR
  EMAIL ADDRESS WAS PICKED FOR THIS LOTTERY.GENERALLY
  EMAIL ADDRESS ARE PICKED, THE DRAWS
  ARE PROCESSED BY THE COMPUTER THROUGH A SPECIAL
  PROGRAM THAT IS SPECIAL DESIGNED FOR THIS LOTTERY, THE
  PROGRAM IS KNOWN AS RANDOM ACCESS PROGRAM (RAP)

  THIS SOFTWARE PICKS EMAIL ADDRESSES FROM THE INTERNET
  AND THROUGH A RANDOM PROCESS, PICKS THE WINNERS
  THROUGH THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS.

               CLAIMING OF PRIZE
              
TO CLAIM YOUR CASH PRIZE PLEASE CONTACT THE LOTTERY AGENT  IMMEDIATELY WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION;ATTORNEY MARK GOLDEN.EMAIL ADDRESS;attorney.markgolden@yahoo.co.uk

ALL PRIZES MUST BE CLAIMED BEFORE 30th OF OCTOBER, 2006
AFTER WHICH CLAIMING OF PRIZES WILL STOP.

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
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 

                           

South African President  

                                                               

     

 

Sincerely,
Rev. JAN KOOPMANN
Promotions Manager
World cup 2010
South Africa                        

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