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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: info@fnbsa.co.za
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:30:44 +0200
Subject: Lottery Winning Notification.

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
FNB LOTTERY,SOUTH AFRICA.


Dear Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as one of the winners in
the FNB LOTTERY online Promotional draw held on August 27th,2005.

We selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 5,500,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada,
Europe,Middle East, new Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions
Program.
You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various e-business
website we are running on the Internet.

A ticket number 100-309-7482,with serial number 111 410-887 was
attached to your email address which drew the lucky numbers 1 10 29 37 45 49
and consequently won in the second category. You are therefore awarded a cash
prize of US$1,000,000.00, which is the winning payout for Second category
winners. This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared among
several international/local winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

You are to contact the director of claims department with the information
below to arrange for your payout,

Mr.Noah Khumalo
Director,
Claims Department, FNB Lottery
Email: khumalo@fnbsa.co.za
Tel:27-73-813-4803

Ensure that you contact the director of claims department not later than 14
working days from the day this notification was sent to you, failing to do so
you will automatically be disqualified.

Sincerely Yours,

MRS JOYCE FREDRICK
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
SA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.

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