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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: SA 2010 DRAW <sa-draw2010@live.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:09:01 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: SA 2010 FIFA PROMOTION!

 

THIS MESSAGE IS FROM THE CO-ORDINATOR, FIFA INTERNATIONAL /LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE (LOC)

PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD:   PLATINUM LOTTERY  

 

 

 

     

     

 

 

 

 

    ********FIFA WORLD CUP-SOUTH AFRICA 2010********

 

 CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING SELECTED IN THIS PROMO:

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is an official notification that your email address has won among others the sum of US$2, 000,000.00 (TWO MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) only in the Final category of our first lottery draw of 2010 in promotion of the forth-coming FIFA World Cup in South Africa

 

Your email address was among millions of addresses extracted electronically from all football playing nations and Middle East as part of a promotional program to support and promote the game of foot ball worldwide. This is a computer ballot system draw.

The world football governing body-FIFA in collaboration with the government of South Africa sorted the support of Multinational Companies in and outside the shores of Africa to get this program actualized.

 

The draw of this lottery took place on the 2nd of July 2010 to mark the year’s count down to this major soccer fister scheduled between June and July 2010, and your email address drew a lucky numbers of 17, 21, 23, 37, 42, 46 and Insurance Number FIFA/SALOC/JJ2010-001 which came up in the second category of the sportstake under the supervision of Fifa general secretary Jerome Valke.

 

Due to the sensitive nature of this program, we have bar-coded this notification letter so as to make sure that the claimant is not swindled, as such you have to forward your wining numbers as well as your email address to an agent shown below who will facilitate the payment to you without any delay.


Claim Agent: Dr. Timothy Wani
Email: wani_timothy@live.com
Direct Line+27 828 60 2010


Please fill the following columns and send to your agent for the processing of your winning fund. Your personal email address can be sent to him if you so desire for confidential purposes.


Full Names:……………………............                             Nationality:………………………..........
Full Address:……………………………                           Sex:...................Age:……………………
Phone/Mobile:......................................                               Office Tel:…………………………………
Fax:.....................................................                                    Occupation:...........................................

Yours Faithfully,


Mrs. Grace Sisulu
SECRETARY:

 

SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP BID LOTTERY AWARD COMMITTEE

 

 

  

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