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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: "omeg lottery" <omeglottery8@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:41:07 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT

Attn:

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,6/ 3/2006, of
winners of the FLASH FORTUNE LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS,held
on 30TH/ 3/ 2006 as part of our promotional draws.Participants were
selected through a computer ballotsystem drawn from 2,500,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,
Asia,Australia, Canada,Europe, Middle East, and NewZealand as part of our
electronic business PromotionsProgram. You qualified for the draw as a
result of you visiting various websites we
are running the e-business promotions for.

You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 100-309-7482,with serial number
513-10 drew the luckynumbers 2,9,22,23,24,30,+5 and consequently won in the
Second Category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$1,950,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for Second category
winners. This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared
among the Seven international winners in the Second tegory.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with the Omega Crossing Finance and Security
Company insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names,
we ask that you keep this awar strictly from public notice until your claim
has been processed and your money remitted to your account. 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 mid year (2005) high stakes US$1.3 billion International
Lottery.To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent
immediately.And you can clike on our website for more information and to
know about us on .

MR. MARK MBEZU
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
# 25 RICHARDS RYLAAN, AUCKLAND PARK,0083
P.O. BOX 524, AUCKLANDPARK
JOHANNESBURG 2001
SOUTH AFRICA
OMEGA CROSSING.
EMAIL: mark_mbezu1@yahoo.com


For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice.
Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than 30th-3-2006.
After this date, 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 provided below in every
one of your correspondences with your claims agent.REFERENCE NUMBER:
FLS-ZR39-825P-4,BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN.

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

Sincerely,

THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, FLASH FORTUNE LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA. 2nd Floor SABC
Radio Park Building P.O. Box 91711, Auckland Park, 2007 Henley Road

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your
claims agent through
his email contact above.

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