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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.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from: the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • prize.claims@katamail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • prize.claims@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: prize.claims@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 01:09:37 +0200
Subject: Congratulations, you are a grand lottery winner !!!


ONLINE STAKERS
SUITE X12 MORULA SUN
GAUTENG PROVINCE,
SOUTH AFRICA

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: PIL/57536057/06
BATCH: 34/0037/WOL

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION:

Be informed that you have emerged a winner of our Lottery International Program that was drawn three days from the day of this notice. Attached to ticket number 22,67,17,12,10 BONUS NO: 90 with serial Number 52114-048 matched the winning numbers 22,67,17,12,10 BONUS NO: 90 and consequently won our International lottery in the Ist category.

Approved is a lump sum of Two million three hundred thousand Euro (2.300,000.00 Euro) in cash prize accredited to file REF NO. PIL/57536057/06 that should be released to you. This is from the total prize money of (39,100, 000.00 Euro) shared among the seventeen International winners in various categories.

Participants were selected through a referral program and winners were picked by a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe, Africa and North America as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. Participants are selected from individuals all over the world that do register on the Internet daily. This draw
automatically qualifies you for our end of the year International Grand draw of (100,000,000 Euro) that will take place by the end of the year. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly unknown to the public until your claim has been processed and your money released to you.

To begin your claim, please contact the claims department:

**********************************************
Mr. Matayas Cana
(Claims Manager)
Email: prize.claims@katamail.com
Email: prize.claims@hotmail.com
Tel: 27762526805
Fax: 27731252525
**********************************************

For express processing of your claims, please provide the following information clearly written:

Your full name
Your Sex:
Your personal email address
Your winning Reference numbers
Your batch numbers.
Your country of Origin

NB: Prizes must be claimed not later than 8 working days. After these Stipulated days, all funds will be returned as unclaimed prizes and will be channeled for charity especially on the uplifting of AIDS awareness and its cure in collaboration with the World Health Organization (W.H.O)

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote personal email address, your winning reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with the claims officer by phone

Congratulations and thank you for being part of our International promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,

Mrs. Ronel Peo
(Promotions Director)
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