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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: "PROMOTERS FLASH LOTTO ORG." <promoters01flash@homemail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: paul28douglas@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:44:34 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

PROMOTERS FLASH LOTTO ORG. DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
ATTENTION:

we are pleased to inform you today 2nd, August 2005 as one
of the lucky winners of the INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC
LOTTERY INC
draws, held on 31st July 2005 as part of Our
e-business promotional 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 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 23457677/2804 BATCH NUMBER:
79-124-WAN with serial number 81809 drew the lucky numbers
4-7-9-24-33-47 and consequently won in the second quarter
of
the year 2005 draw.

You have therefore been approved for 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$15,000,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the
first category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents here
in 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.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in
our middle of year (2005) high stakes US$1.1 billion
International Lottery.To begin your claim,

please contact our claims manager in our claims department.

MR. PAUL DOUGLAS
CLAIMS MANAGER
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
MELVILLE,
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27 73 293 3769
EMIAL: paul28douglas@yahoo.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money,
Remember you must contact your claim agent not later than
two weeks. All funds will be returned as unclaimed.
Congratulations Once again
Mrs. Queensley Benson
Promotions Manager



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