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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "shaws takers" <shawslottery108@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:03:02 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

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

DEAR SIR/MADAM

We are pleased to inform you of our announcement today, 27th MARCH, 2006 of
winners in the SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY Promotional draw held on the 4th January
2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email 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 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 entry 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$900,000.00, 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 file in your claim to the director of claims
department with the information below to arrange for your payout,
Dr.David Sithole.
Email:david_sithole2000@yahoo.com
PHONE; 27- 833-517-619

Ensure that you contact the claim department not later than
21 days from the day you receive this notification message.

Sincerely,
MR JECOB SANTA

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