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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: southwaylottery2@netscape.net
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:06:10 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING


We are pleased to inform you today 28th January 2006 as one of the lucky winners
of the SOUTHWAY ELECTRONIC LOTTERY INC draws, held on 21st January 2006 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: SWELZA 2464568/2005 BATCH NUMBER: 2005-12-WAN with
serial number 724-05 drew the lucky numbers 3-8-25-23-27-45 and consequently won in
the third quarter of the 2005 year draw.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of S$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. (ALL-STATES FINANCE
LIMITED) 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 quarter of year
(2006) high stakes US$1.2 billion International Lottery. To begin your claim,
please contact our agent who also will be your claims agent.

MR.PETER SHABALALA
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
ALL-STATES FINANCE LIMITED
MELVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA
TEL/FAX +27-76-314-1420
EMIAL:allstatesfinltd@excite.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money, Remember you must contact
your claim agent not later than two weeks After this date, otherwise, 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 in every one of your correspondences with
your agent.Furthermore you are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information
and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous
individuals. Again, should there be any change in your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.



Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
Promotions program.

Yours sincerely,

Customers Service Department
Southway Lottery Inc.



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.
Anybody below the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

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