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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: "lotto award" <suncity403@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:37:53 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL LOTTO WINNING

DEAR Sir/Madam


NOTIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL LOTTO WINNING

We are pleased to inform you from SUN CITY INTER ELECTRONIC LOTTERY of
the announcement today,2nd of May 2006 as one of the lucky winners of The
SUN CITY INTER ELECTRONIC OTTERY draws, held on the 29th Of April 2006 as
part of our E-business promotional draws end. Participants in the draws were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Europe, Middle East, as part of our electronic business
Promotions. You qualified for the draw as a result of your visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for. You/Your
Company email address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX,
BATCH NUMBER: YY77-XOO with serial number 215-18 drew the lucky numbers 12,
19, 27, 30, 34, 52, 89, and consequently won the 2005 1ST Quarter draw.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$1,500,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for First category
winners. This is from the total prize money of US$10,500,000.00 shared among
the seven winners in the First category. CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (OUTSUR FINANCE AND
AGENCY), as we have notified them. Due to the mix 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 End of year (2006) high stakes £1.1
billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact our
paying agent who also will be your claim agent immediately:

Mr. ANDERSON MABUZA
MANAGER BROKERAGE SERVICE
OUTSUR FINANCE AND AGENCY
Phone: +27 73 - 348 - 7433
Email:agentandersonmabuza@yahoo.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money, Remember you must
contact your claim agent not later than 14TH of May 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:
BMX=200X-19Z4-DMX BATCH NUMBER: YY77-XOO
Also to begin your Claim sends to your claims agent the following
information by email.

1) YOUR BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS and AMOUNT WON
2) YOUR FULL NAME AND AGE
3) YOUR ADDRESS
4) A COPY OF YOUR ID (PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LISCENCE)
5) CONTACT TLEPHONE, MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER

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

THE LOTTO AWARDS MANAGER,
SUN CITY INTER ELECTRONIC LOTTERY
124 RANBURG ROAD, MELVILLE
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. This is a computer generated message. Please do not reply
to this mail since we will be unable to answer these replies.
Contact your claims agent by email fax or phone.

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