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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: johnsmithza@webmail.co.za
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:55:58 +0200
Subject: LOTTO WINNER (REPLY URGENTLY)

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

we are pleased to inform you from AIRWICK LOTTERY.of the
announcement today 8th March,2005 as one of the lucky New
year winners of the AIRWICK 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/YourCompany e-mail address, attached
with REFERENCE
NUMBER:ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER:79-124-WAN with
serial number 818-09 drew the lucky numbers7-8-40-15-3-49
and consequently won our new year 2005.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$2,200,000.00 in cash, which 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.
(CHUBB
FINANCE & SECURITY) As we have notified them. Due to the
mixup 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.

NAME:WILLIAM JACK
FINACE DEPARTMENT
AIRWICK LOTTERY.SOUTH AFRICA.
9 CHURCH STREET,
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA
TELFAX:+27-73-2777781
EMAIL:williamjack@webmail.co.za



For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
Remember you
must contact your claim agent 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.


Sincerely,

THE AWARDS MANAGER,
AIRWICK 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

JOHN SMITH

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