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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:04:02 +0100
Subject: Attention: Customer AFRSA680:WINNING NOTIFICATION.




From: Ms. Jenney Anderson
Canada Lottery/Ontario Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw
5673 Johan Av Ontario
Dixon, ON, Canada, VIP 9E3


Our Canadian Agent in Africa
Contact Information;
africanconsultantclaim@live.co.za [http://web10.citromail.hu/action.vip?action=write&reply=1&mail_to=africanconsultantclaim%40live.co.za&lang=hu&vip=487dcd7bec13d14b13ed72192a170785c&vip=487dcd7bec13d14b13ed72192a170785c].
(Tel: 0027-738-111-056)
(Fax: 0027-865-192-354)


Attention: Customer AFRSA680
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/08
Batch No. Lotto 6/49

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Canadian Government sponsors this lottery for the promotion of the 2010 Soccer World cup to be hosted in South Africa.
We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake Lottery International Programs held on Sat 25th October 2008 in Essex
United Kingdom and Lotto Canada.

Your e-mail address attached to Ticket Number: B956475604545 100, with Serial Number 46563760 drew the winning numbers ( 4-9-25-26-41-46) with a bonus Number (40) for Lotto 6/49 under the choice of the lottery in the 2nd category of bi-weekly six. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file EAAL/8510YHI/08.

This is from a total cash prize of US $11,100,000.00 Million dollars, shared amongst the first One Hundred and-thirty (130) lucky winners in this category Worldwide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Afro booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon, because this particular draw was selected to promote the 2010 World Cup to be hosted in South Africa hence your winning information must be kept to enable you participate in our subsequent draws which will see 500 participants travelling on an all expense paid trip to South Africa for the Soccer World Cup 2010.



In view of this, your US$950,000.00(Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by an accredited commercial Bank in South Africa. Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact our African Agent's office.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,00 companies and personal e-mails. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by unscrupulous elements. Please be warned! To file for your claim, please contact Mr. Philip Raku our corresponding Agent in South Africa immediately you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information as follow: email: africanconsultantclaim@live.co.za [http://us.mc462.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=africanconsultantclaim@live.co.za] or Phone 00 27-738-111-056 to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference numbers in any correspondences with our designated agents.

Congratulations! Once more from all members and staff of this program that has ensured that you won this competition. Thank you for being part of our
Promotional Lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Jenney Anderson
NOTE To confirm that you have the winning number for Sat 25th October 2008 draw, visit:

http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=6&rfp=dta [http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=6&rfp=dta confirm]

Confirm under Lotto 6/ 49



PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING DATA;

Full Names;
Physical Address;
Occupation;
Age;
Nationality;
Telephone/Fax;
Marital Status;
Ticket Number:
Serial Number;
Bonus Number;
Winning Number;
Date of Draw;
Amount Won;

This will enable us to process and submit your claim to the bank without any further delay.

Yours Sincerely,
Accredited Claim Agent South Africa Division
TELEPHONE: +27 – 738-111-056
FAX NUMBER;+27- 865-192-354



Note: Please supply us with your winning details as to enable us to verify your winning and claiming date, we are very skeptic about this, people have provided us with lots of false winning documents that is why we need to make sure that the information's supplied by you will be the same as in our system, that only qualifies you perhaps make sure that all information's provided by you are of original to avoid paying the winning amount to a wrong account{s}.

Good luck.



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