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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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Fraud email example:

From: national_rsa_lottery@zwallet.com
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:52:40 +0200
Subject: ++Congratulations You have Won++

AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE GATEGORY \A\ WINNERS

We are pleased to inform you from RSA NATIONAL LOTTERY ORG. of the Lottery Held on 18th April 2005, which your e mail address happens to be one of our category (A) winner, from the announcement today 26th April,2005 as one of our New Year lucky winners of the RSA NATIONAL 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, MiddleEast, 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 USM$1,500,000.00 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 Bank (ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA) 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.

PHILIP DUMISANI
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
RSA NATIONAL LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
JOHANNESBURG, GAUTENG
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: 27-72 046 8946
FAX: 27-72 764 8146
EMAIL:nationalwinners@zwallet.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 once again from all our staff, you are obliged by the management of this Organization that you are to donate Ten percent (10%) of your winning to charity organization here in South Africa.

Sincerely,

THE AWARDS MANAGER,
RSA NATIONAL LOTTERY ORG.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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