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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 state 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)
  • ",000,000" (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)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• 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.
  • +27738826080 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • steve2007zuma@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: steve zuma <steve2007zuma14@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:28:24 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESSS HAS WON $1,000.000million






THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUEPROMOTE BID SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP. THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held to promote the Bid South Africa 2010 World Cup, by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won $1,000,000.00{One million United State Dollars} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMOTION CATEGORY B.
However the results were released today and your Email Address was attached to ticket number :(7PWYZ2006) and ballot number / BT: 12052006/20) and Ref Number: FER/4690/6103/24 . The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and co-operate bodies, companies from Asia, United States Of America,+South America, Africa,Europe, Middle east, Austrialia and picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
However, all email addresses were assigned to different ticket winning numbers for representation and privacy policies only. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .
This Lottery was approved by the British Commission / U.S.A / S.A Gambling Board & management S.A which is also licensed by the The International Association of Gambling Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:

NAME: MR STEVE ZUMA
(CLAIM AGENT).Email: steve2007zuma@yahoo.com
TEL: +27 738 826 080

Please provide the following details for processing of your claim. And send to your claiming agent. MR STEVE ZUMA. Call him on the phone.

NAME:....................................ADDRESS:...............................NATIONALITY:.........................SEX:.......................................AGE:.......................................PHONE/MOBILE:......................FAX:.......................................OCCUPATION:..........................COMPANY:...............................TICKETS/BALLOT:.....................

Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly confidential from any public notice until your claim prize / award has been processed and your money remitted into your country account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double / dual claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants on this program.
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this PROMOTION. Accept our hearty congratulations once again! Yours Faithfully,Management.





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