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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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Fraud email example:

From: zenexlotteryza@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:10:47 +0200
Subject: ++NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING++

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

We are pleased to inform you from ZENEX LOTTERY. of the Lottery Held on 20th of Febuary 2005,
which your e mail address happens to, be One of our category (A) winner, from the announcement
today 27th Febuary,2005 as one of our New Year lucky winners of the ZENEX LOTTERY draws.
Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot System drawn from 2,500,000
e-mail addresses of individuals and Companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Canada,
Europe, Middle East and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.

You are qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various websites we are running the
Electronic-business promotions for You/Your Company e-mail address, attached with
REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN with serial number 818-09 drew the
lucky numbers 7-8-40-15-3-49 and consequently won our New Year (2005) lottery You have therefore
been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$2,200,000.00 in cash, this is the winning payout for
First category Winners. This is from the total prize money of US$15.5 Million shared among the
winners in the First category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (Greenland Finance Limited)as we have
notified them. Due to the mix-up that may arise from emails of winners and numbers we ask that you
keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
by participants of this program.

To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent/company who also Will be your claims agent.

DUMISANI DUBE
CLAIMS MANAGER
GREENLAND FINANCE LIMITED.
MELVILLE,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27-73 133 0487
FAX: +27-73 642 6165
EMAIL: claimsdept@greenlandfinance.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money, you are to contact your claims agent not later
than two weeks after notification. After this date all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference
and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN SERIAL NUMBER: 818-09 Also to begin your
Claim send to your claims agent the Following information.

1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AMOUNT WON.
6) AGE

Congratulations.
Sincerely,

THE AWARDS MANAGER,
ZENEX LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
9 CHURCH STREET
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.
Please do not reply to this mail, Contact your claims agent.

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