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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: panoramalottery <panoramalottery@tidni.com>
Reply-To: goldbergfinance@mixmail.com
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:02:25 -0400
Subject: +++CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON+++

FROM: THE DESK OF THE AWARDS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
PANORAMA ELECTRONIC LOTTERY INC.
SOUTH AFRICA
Dear sir/madam,

Notification of your prize winning:

We are pleased to inform you from PANORAMA ELECTRONIC
LOTTERY INC. of the announcement today Wednesday the 27th of April,
2005 as one of the lucky winners of The PANORAMA ELECTRONIC
LOTTERY INC.draws,held on Tuesday the 26th April,2005 as part of
Our e-business Freedom Day Independence bonanza/promotional excercise.
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 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: SEL-PD23-711W-9 BATCH NUMBER:
79-124-WAN with serial number 215-18 drew the lucky numbers 12, 19, 27, 30,34, 52, 89, and consequently won our New Year (2005) lottery draw.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of US$1,200,000.00 in cash, which is the winning
payout for First category winners. This is from the total
prize money of US$8,400,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the
First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings is to be claimed from our paying
Agent.(GOLDBERG FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED)As we have
deposited your prize with 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 the public.We hope with a part of your prize, you willparticipate in our high stakes US$1.1 billion International Mid YearLottery.
To begin your claim,contact your claims agent/paying company.MR.TUTU MADIBA.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
GOLDBERG FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED.
EMAIL:goldbergfinance@mixmail.com
PHONE:+277 3659 7560.

For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
you must contact your claim agent on or before the
8th of May,2005.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: SEL-PD23-711W-9
BATCH NUMBER: 79-124-WAN
Also to begin your Claim,send to your claims agent thefollowing information.
1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AGE
6) AMOUNT WON.
7)NATIONALITY
8) I.D NUMBER OR DRIVER'S LICENSE NUMBER.

Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Justina Edwards
Awards Manager,
Bafana Electronic Lottery Inc.
South Africa.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification.
Do not reply to this mail box ensure to contact your claims
agent immediately either by email or telephone as stated above.








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