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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_4 fread <lotto_4fread@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 05:20:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! please contact your claims agent Mr John Meyer


NATIONAL LOTTERY INCORPORATE!!

A ONCE AND FINAL AWARD NOTIFICATION CATEGORY "B".

It is our great pleasure to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of the National Lottery Incorporate promotion
programme. for World Cup Bid which will held here in South Africa 2010
The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 55,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were
sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of five winners in the category "B" with the followings:Ref Number:NLI/BA29641-Y72 Batch Number:NLI DHX/5108
Ticket Number:01233/TNO59 Serial Number:G2800 Lucky number:62 88 521

You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of
$2,500,000.00.(TWO MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) ) each from the total
payout.

Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "B" winners with the informations below:
Mr John Meyer
CLAIM MANAGER,
TEL +27-738242889
Email: johnmeyer@katamail.com


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.You are to keep all winning information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours Faithf
FREAD
NB: PLEASE FILL THIS FORM FOR US, TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE DURING THE TIME OF YOUR PAYMENT.

YOUR TELEPHONE.................... AND FAX...................

YOUR OCCUPATION..................AND AGE..........................

BANK NAME: ....................

ACCOUNT HOLDER’S NAME:........................

BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER:.............................

BANK ADDRESS........................................

SWIFT CODE:.................................

CITY:....................... AND COUNTRY: ........................





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