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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:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• 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.
  • +27739920444 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
  • +27866481795 (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.
  • drstevenwilsonsa@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • 3adrstevenwilsonsa@yahoo.com
  • annadavids2g@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "anna davids" <annadavids106@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:17:30 +0200
Subject: Online lottery results


POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2008,
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSOLATION WINNER NOTICE

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners Your
email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our
E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was
included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner
international email provider companies.

You have won a consultation cash prize of US$2,780,000.00
(Two Million Seven Hundred and Eighty Thousand United States Dollars) only.
For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the FIDUCIARY AGENT
Information Officer Dr. Steve Wilson who has been assigned to assist you.You
are to contact him with the following details for the release of your
winnings.THIS LOTTERY IS SPONSORED BY FIFA (FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION) FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE 2010 WORLD CUP TO BE HOSTED (
http://www.fifa.com) IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NED BANK AND TELKOMSA.

To begin your claim, urgently contact your claim Department through the
below
Information:

Dr. Steven Wilson

FIFA ONLINE PROMOTIONS
TEL: +27 73 992 0444
FAX: +27 86 648 1795
E-MAIL:drstevenwilsonsa@yahoo.com <E-MAIL%3Adrstevenwilsonsa@yahoo.com>

Claims Requirements:
1.Name in full:
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Occupation:
5.Phone Number:
6.Present Country:
7.Sex:
8.coupon Number

Contact E-mail: drstevenwilsonsa@yahoo.com or annadavids2g@yahoo.com

Regards

Mrs Anna Davids.
(Group Coordinator)

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam