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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

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:

Fraud email example:

From: mahalalobolifoundation@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:01:45 +0200
Subject: Consultation Prize Winner

MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GAME 2005,
Date: 6TH-JANUARY-2006
REF NO: MLF/06/6654/LWG

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSULTATION PRIZE NOTICE
The Mahala Loboli Foundation international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, UTHINGO LOTTERIES SOUTH AFRICA officially brings to your notice, the final draw result of the 20TH December-2005 POWERBALL LOTTO-wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in Johannesburg.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seeks to encourage the use of the Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literary projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as
well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize winners.
Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL242-6914-20 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 $1.500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only. The MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION has approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and
processes for the claims of your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU accredited claims officer.

MR. ADAMS BELLO
TEL:+27-73-4117189
E-mail:adamsbello@inbox.com

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL
LOTTO-wheel Email-games end of year sweepstakes special.

Regards,

Mrs Heindel Krugger

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations,this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation prize Winners.This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Rather, contact your claims officer whose credentials are listed above. All staff of MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION and members of their family as well as South Africans of all ages are barred from this lottery.

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