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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: "PEARLE SETE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <benedictkhumalo@coolkiwi.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:38:32 +0200
Subject: REMINDER FOR YOUR CLAIM

Dear Sir,

CONGRATULATION! THIS IS A RANDOM REMINDER TO YOU SEVEN WINNERS TO FINALIZE YOUR CLAIM

Your email ID has been selected to have won the South African FIFA Lottery award.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all over the world.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$5,500,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for category "A" winners. This is from the total prize money of S$38,500,000.00 shared among the Seven international winners in the category 'A".

To begin your claim, please contact.

Dr. Benedict Khumalo , (TEL: +27 72 1944104) EMAIL: benedictkhumalo@coolkiwi.com
with your
Name:---------------------
Age:------------------------
Identification:-------------
Nationality:------------------
Occupation:------------------
Tel/Fax:-----------------------
for due processing and remittance of your prize money to you.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pearle Sete (Co-ordinator)

N.B any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Reply to: benedictkhumalo@coolkiwi.com

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