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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:
  • ",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 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.
  • +27839267993 (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.
  • nelsenrobert_claim@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "national lotto" <n.lotto@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:41:38 +0200
Subject: SPECIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY 2008
SPECIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

BE NOTIFIED THAT ON THE 30TH OF APRIL 2008.Your Email Have Luckily Won The Sum of US$420,000.00(FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR)

BRIEF WINNING INFORMATIONS:

There was a computer ballot that was organized by the NATIONAL LOTTERY South Africa.It was not an individual lotto playing, but the computer itself picked out from all over the world, 1,000,000 email addresses and it was selected and picked from the Internet, those email addresses of Participants that was selected and picked from the internet were again selected through a computer ballot system drawn from among the 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world, this is called the computer ballot. And Eight (8) email addresses was finally picked out from among the total 1,000,000 email addresses, and out of those 8 email addresses, your email address is among the winners on theballot. You have to note that this program is being sponsored by the FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN TEAM, to creat awareness for the coming 2010 FIFA world Cup, which is to be host by South Africa.

FOR YOUR CLAIM Call Nelsen Robert Processing Director National Lottery S.A
TELL: +27-83-926-7993.
Email: nelsenrobert_claim@yahoo.com

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED ON THE COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL BALLOT SYSTEM DRAW, AS ONE OF THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE INTERNET COMPUTER LOTTERY DRAW.THE PROGRAM WAS HELD BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEADING LOTTERY ORGANIZATION, KNOWN AS...SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY.THE COMPUTER BALLOT QUALIFIED YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AS ONE OF THE WINNER OF THE SUM OF
US$420,000,00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR)

FOR MORE ENQUIRIES/INFORMATIONS, PLEASE DO CONTACT:(DR. NELSEN ROBERT)
THE PROCCESSING DIRECTOR CLAIM DEPARTMENT ON EMAIL ADDRESS: nelsenrobert_claim@yahoo.com. PLEASE QUOTE YOUR WINNING REFRENCES,SUCH AS YOUR WINNING NUMBERS: 2-9-22-23-24-30 BONUS 5, REFERENCE: 474061725/07 AND BATCH NUMBERS: 7056490902/188, WALSO FURNISH HIM WITH YOUR FULL NAME, YOUR WINNING E-MAIL AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO LOCATE YOUR FILE EASLY.

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET LOTTERY SCAMS, WE ARE DOING THIS TO PROTECT OUR CLIENTS TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM AND UNWARANTED TAKING ADVATEGE OF THIS PROGRAM BY NON PARTICIPANT OR UNOFFICIAL PERSONEL.YOU ARE ADVISED NOT TO EXPOSE YOUR WINNING DETAILS, SO THAT THE SCAMMERS COULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR WINNING INFORMATION. CALL DR. NELSEN ROBERT.

THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT TO YOU BY:

THE CHAIRMAN, LOTTERY ORGANIZER SOUTH AFRICA, MR. JABULANI THABO
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION, SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY MUTUAL PARK JAN SMUTS DRIVE, PINELANDS GAUTENG 7405
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.

Once again Congratulations to you all!!

MRS NANCY WANG
Cordinator.


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