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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.

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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:
  • "hundred thousand united states 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)
• 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.
  • nationalagentclaim@yahoo.com.hk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mrs. Mary Tyler" <saa_claimsmgr2010@writeme.com>
Reply-To: nationalagentclaim@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:44:36 -0800
Subject: PRIZE CLAIM!!

NATIONAL LOTTERY PTY. LTD.
72 New Bond Streets,
Nelson Mandela Way,
Pretoria 015. South Africa.

Reference number: ZAR/5614514/07

Batch number: SA/784/2007/ZAR


ATTENTION TO THE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS;

Congratulations. The National lottery of South African is proud to inform you that you have just won Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$2.500, 000.00).

This lottery is sponsored by South African football association, safa with fifty-six, 56 cooperate bodies.

South Africa will be hosting the soccer world cup in the year 2010.this will be the first ever World Cup to be held in the continent of Africa. And we are celebrating this golden opportunity with this lottery.

We are also using this lottery to create awareness towards the hosting of the world cup in 2010 in South Africa.

Don’t be surprise that you are one of our winners. The aims of this lottery are to surprise our winners.

However no previous notification is given before your email address was picked for this lottery. Generally email address are picked, the draws are processed by the computer through a special program that is special designed for this lottery, the program is known as Random Access Program (RAP)

This software picks email addresses from the internet and through a random process, picks the winners through their email address.

CLAIMING OF PRIZE

To claim your cash prize please contact the lottery manager MR. TONY CIPO immediately with the following information:

Name: MR. TONY CIPO
Email: nationalagentclaim@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: + 27-73-926-1407
Fax:+ 27-86-510-0407

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 abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Mary Tyler
Promotions manager
NATIONAL LOTTERY PTY. LTD.
South Africa

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam