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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!
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• 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.
  • andyjoe@fastermail.com

Fraud email example:

From: "peter robert" <peterrobert110_robert@rediffmail.com>
Date: 13 Apr 2007 12:46:46 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY DRAW


Dear Winner,&nbsp; We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky&nbsp; winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 12th of February 2007. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.. World cup Draw. Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total payout of USD$ 600,000.00 (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND) only. Your email address emerged along side 9 others as a category to winner in this year\'s Annual. The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the&nbsp;Microsoft Corporation,Coca Cola,Nokia,MTN,the Intel Group, Toyota ,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh .And mostly by the South African Government.The world cup free lottery draw is held once a year.And is so organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.And also to advertise the South Africa 2010 World Cup world wide. We are proud to say that over US $ 10 Million are won annually in more than 150 countries world wide. World cup 2010 south africa . !
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of usd$600,000.00 six hundred thousand united state dollarr) 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: FL09622/ZA (iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/ZA For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim your prize money.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid doubleclaiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned. TO RECEIVE YOUR WINNING MONEY,PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE ON THE ABOVE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS ABOVE FOR PROCESSING AND THE TRANSFER OF YOUR WINNING MONEY INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. REMEMBER ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED NOT LATTER THAN APRIL 28TH 2007. AFTER THIS DATE, ALL FUNDS WILL BE RETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AS UNCLAIMED. NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY DELAY AND COMPLI!
CATIONS, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QOUTE YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER IN EVERY OF YO
UR COESPONDENCE WITH US. FURTHERMORE, SHOULD THERE BE ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS,DO NOTIFY US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.AND ALSO INCLUDE YOUR NAME, YOUR PHONE/FAX NUMBERS AND YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AS THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. PETER ROBERT. Claim Manager (Barrister&nbsp; ANDY JOE) Email: andyjoe@fastermail.com&nbsp; CONTACT HIM AND LET US KNOW

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