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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: "eric5 johna" <eric5johna@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:32 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

From :nationallottery555@hotmail.com
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!
Euro Afro American Lottery promotion
Switzerland
Date AGUST-15--th
From the desk of: MR,ERIC JOHNA
Dear Sir\Madam
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING
We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup Bid
lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland. Your
e-mail address attached to ticket
number: B9665 75604546 199 with ! Serial number 97560 drew the winning:
60/84/27/17/36, which subsequently won you the lottery award in the 2nd
category. Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$5,000.000.00 (Five million United States Dollars) in cash credited to
file KPC/9030108308/03 .This is from a total cash prize of US $
30,000,000.00 (Thirty million United States dollars) shared among the first
200 lucky winners in this category world-wide.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet
representative office in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon. In
view of this, your US $5,000.000(Five Million United States Dollars ) would
be released to through the assistance of our agent in South Africa
immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contacted him. Also your claim included with free flight
ticket and one month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotel.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000,00 companies and
individual emails address. The lottery programe took place to promote South
Africa's 2010 world cup award. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.
Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our agent
MR,ERIC JOHNA
immediately you received this message because you stand a risk of loosing
the prize if you fail to claim within a month from the day you received this
notification.His e-mail and phone number
contact is :eric5johna@hotmail.com ,+27-73- 18 -58- 308
Yours sincerely,
MR,ERIC JOHNA

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