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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:

• 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27728803188 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "Intercontinental Mega Lottery" <intermegalott16@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:35:27 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER!!!

FROM THE LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
THE INTERCONTINENTAL MEGA LOTTERY.
UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132-133 PARK HURST
BALFOUR UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001
SOUTH AFRICA.







THE INTERCONTINENTAL MEGA LOTTERY

******************************************************************************
Lottery Prize Winning Announced Today
THE 5th OF FEBRUARY 2007
******************************************************************************


We are delighted to inform you of your prize release from the
Intercontinental Mega Lottery program. Your name was attached to:



Ticket number; 47061725


Batch number; 7056490902


Winning number; 11-12-34-39-44-48


bonus number 21


which consequently won the lottery in the first category. You hereby have
been approved a lump sum pay of ($850.000.00 USD) (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND U.S DOLLAR) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
form Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States,
Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international
promotions program. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a
conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base.

As indicated in your play coupon your prize of ($850.000.00 USD) (EIGHT
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLAR) will be released to you from our
paying banks. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our
middle of the year high stakes.

How to claim your prize Simply contact our fiduciary department, Dr. MICHAEL
JACOBS or Mrs. NANCY VAN, EMAIL ADDRESS: (clmdpt0@aol.co.uk) to file for
your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can
be found on the top of this notification as well as the below listed
informations:



FULL NAMES:

CONTACT ADDRESS:

TELEPHONE/FAX:

WINNING NUMBER:



Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before the 15th of FEBRUARY 2007
otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity organizations.




!!!Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!


CONTACT OUR CLAIM DEPARTMENT
Dr. MICHAEL JACOBS or Mrs. NANCY VAN
EMAIL CONTACT: clmdpt0@aol.co.uk
TELEPHONE: +27-728-803-188
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
INTERCONTINENTAL MEGA LOTTERY
UINVERSAL BUILDING, 132-133 PARK HURST
BALFOUR UNIT 1440. JOHANNESBURG. 2001
GAUTENG.


YOU ARE ADVICED TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIM DEPARTMENT IMMEDIATELY. ANY BREACH OF
CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.




KIND REGARDS,

J. HANSON

PROMOTIONS MANAGER.

FOR INTERCONTINENTAL MEGA LOTTERY.

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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 taking advantage of this program by non-participant
or unofficial personnel.
*******************************************************************************

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