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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: "MS. ASTRID LUDIN" <adv.george9@webmail.co.za> (may be fake)
Reply-To: adv.george@webmail.co.za
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:50:05 +0100
Subject: Good News From Zurich, You Have Won

Customer Service: 480 NCA1068
Ref: ZAWC/2010/WWW/04
Batch: 14/8052/DC04

Attention 4th Category,

CONGRATULATIONS! LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the South African
2010 World Cup Global Mega lottery, Swiss lottery,
Sweepstake International and free lotto Promotion Programs
held on the 28th of February 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: B75904546
220 with Serial number: 60124 drew the winning:
04/07/24/25/40/42 which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 4th category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
USD$2,000,000.00(Two Million, United States Dollars) in
cash credited to file ZA/621825/04. This is from a total
cash prize of USD$80,000,000(Eighty million, United States
Dollars) shared amongst 40(Forty lucky winners in this
category world-wide.

Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within
our Afro booklet representative office in Southern Africa
as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
winnings of US$2,000,000.00(Two Million, United States
Dollars) will be remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to claim your prize.

Our corresponding office/agent in Southern Africa will
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
them. All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn and extracted from over 100,000 e-mails
ID of individuals and companies on the World Wide Web sites
to promote South Africa's 2010 World Cup Award.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you as we have been
warm against some Impostors. Who have been using this
medium contacting people as our agents in Respect to the
collection of their winning prize money?
So also you can check through our listed website bellow,
but no information will be given to you by our customer as
this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
unscrupulous people. PLEASE BE WARNED.

Adv. George Negota
OFFICE COORDINATOR
Private Bag X101 BROOKLYN SQUARE , SOUTH AFRICA
Tel 0860 0NLDTF (065383)
EMAIL ADDRESS:adv.george@webmail.co.za
http://www.nlb.org.za/history.asp </Redirect/www.nlb.org.za/history.asp>

Immediately you read this message for quick and urgent
processing and release of your winnings prize money. Please
be informed that all winners must claim within 30 days.
Always quote your reference/batch numbers in any
correspondences with our designated office/agents or us.

Congratulations!

FROM: MS. ASTRID LUDIN
PROMOTIONAL MANAGER,
ZURICH SWIZERLAND
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY


Powered, Sponsored and Engineered by CLASSIC F.M , BY SWISS
LOTTERY http://www1.loterie.ch/indexf.php </Redirect/www1.loterie.ch/indexf.php> SWEEPSTAKE
INTERNATIONAL http://www.sweepstakes.com/ </Redirect/www.sweepstakes.com/> SWISS LOTTERY
http://www1.loterie.ch/indexf.php </Redirect/www1.loterie.ch/indexf.php>


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