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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: "national lotto" <nationallotto_201010@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:50:29 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

>From : Lotto Manager .
South African 2010 World cup lottery Award
Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court Carlton East Gate
Batch: ( 13/26/DC36.)

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING:

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your
e-mail address attached to ticketnumber: (B9665 75604546 199) with ! Serial
number (97560) drew the winning (2/26/31/38/40/46), which subsequently on
you the lottery award in the 2nd category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$2,000,000.00 (Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file
(KPC/9030108308/03). This is from a total cash prize of US ($2,000,000.00)
(Two Million dollars) shared among the first 200 Hundred and lucky winners
in this category world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number
falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as
indicate in the play coupon. In view of this, your U.S ($2,000,000.00 (Two
Million United States Dollars) would be released to you by our bank manager
immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contact him. Also your claim included with free flight ticket
and one month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotel.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over (100,000,00) companies and
individual emails address. Thelottery programe took place to promote south
africa (2010 world cup award). For security reasons, you are advised to keep
your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and
your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

(Please be warned)
To file for your claim, please contact our banking Manager immediately, you
read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund, his conatct
information is as follow

Name: Mr.Wilson Methu
Direct Line : (+27/ 72/ 288/ 4625
E-mail : wilsonmethu@yahoo.com

Please be informed that all winning Prize must be claimedon or before 30
days of this notification. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please quote your reference /batch numbers in any correspondences with us or
our designated agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program that
has succesfully won this competition.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.
signed:
President Nelson duma (chairman)
Molefi Olophant (President)
Albert Mokoena(Chief Operations Officer)
Danny Jordaan(Chief Executive Officer)

Call our bank manager for your cliam.

Thank you for your co-operation
(Zonal Co-ordinator)
Robert Mboma

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