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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "microsoft corp world lottery" (no such lottery exists)
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "million british pounds" (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)
• 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.
  • osmondwalter@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: UNITED KINGDOM PROMOTION AWARD NATIONAL LOTTERY / SOUTH AFRICAN AGENT
<s_a_ttery87@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:46:53 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION



The Microsoft Corp World Lottery,United Kingdom
P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL
United Kingdom.

Winning Numbers 887 13 865 37 10 83

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#953) of the MICROSOFT CORP WORLD LOTTERY AWARD International programs held in U.K your "email address" was Attached to ticket number; B9665 75604546 199 serial number 97560, this Batch draws the lucky winning numbers as follows 887/13/865/37/10/83, Bonus number 2, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer Balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as Part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) in cash credited to file MSW-L/200-26937

This is from a total cash prize of £50,000,000 shared among the (25) Twenty-Five lucky winners in this 2nd category. Furthermore your detail (e-mail address) falls within our South African Representative Office in Johannesburg, South Africa, as indicated in your Play coupon and your prize sum of £2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) will be remitted to you by our paying bank.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:

Simply contact our Fiduciary Claim Agent in South Africa where your own Payment is zoned. He will immediately commence the process to facilitate The release of your winning price money by our paying bank, His contact detail is shown below:

Claim Manager: Mr. Osmond Walter.
TEL: 0027 73 227 9547.
Email: osmondwalter@sify.com

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent Immediately with the below information's:

NAME:
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
PHONE/MOBILE:
FAX:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY:
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish You the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information Confidential till your cash prize is processed and your money remitted to You in whatever means you wish to receive your cash prize by our paying Bank.

Endeavour to contact the agent in Africa with the required information's Immediately. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double Claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!!

Congratulations!!! Once more on behalf of members and staff of the BRITISHAWARD LOTTERY 2007.

Congratulations once again.

Yours in service,

Mr. Richard K Lloyd.

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO, KINDLY CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT IN SOUTH AFRICA DIRECTLY FOR
FURTHER DIRECTIONS.
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