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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: "Graceland gracelandlottery" <gracelandlottery01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: gracelandfinance@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:53:42 +0200
Subject: Congratulations Please Process Your Winnings.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
South African 2010 World cup lottery Award
Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court
, Carlton
East Gate

Batch: (13/26/DC36.)

AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE GATEGORY \B\ WINNERS

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland in Conjunctions with (GRACE LAND (ONLINE) LOTTERY SYSTEMS.) Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: (B9665 75604546 199) with! Serial number (97560) drew the winning: (60/84/27/17/36), which subsequently won you the lottery award in the category (B).

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of ZAR 9,000,000.00 (Nine million south African Rand in cash credited to file (KPC/9030108308/03). This is from a total cash prize of ZAR 180,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Eighty Million South African Rand) shared among the first TEN 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, you’re ZAR(9,000,000.00 (Nine Million South African Rand) would be released to you by our payout Committee immediately you arrive here in our office premises and commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning prize.But in the avenue where by 
you are unable to travel to south Africa to claim your prize, you will be required to use the services of an Accredited Attorney to process your payout prize, in such case you will inform your payout supervisor immediately you receive this notification, so that you will be allocated with an accredited attorney to work and sign out this on your behalf.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over (100,000) companies and individual emails address. The lottery program took place  to promote south African (2010 world cup award) under the supervision of Graceland Lotteries. 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 Your Fiduciary Claims agent immediately you receive this message for quick and urgent process for the release of your winnings with the following information.
1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AMOUNT WON.
6) AGE
7) OCCUPATION
8) NATIONALITY
 
Contact the Fiduciary claims agent on the information,s below;
NAME MR.PAUL JACOBS
GRACE LAND FINANCE (PTY) LTD.
P.O.BOX 2433,RANDPARK RIDGE,JOHANNESBURG.
TEL   :+27 72 046 8946
EMAIL:gracelandfinance@yahoo.com

Please be informed that all winning Prize must be claimed on 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 successfully won this competition.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Signed:

Dr Nelson Mandela (Chairman)
Molefi Oliphant (President)
Chief Operations Officer  
Albert Mokoena
Chief Executive Officer
Danny Jordaan.
N.B/Call the paying officer immedaitely for your claim, 
Thank you for your co-operation

Mr, Godstime Gebebreil
 
(Zonal Co-coordinator).



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