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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: "SA LOTTERY PROMOTION" <rebeccazuma13@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:55:10 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
MRS REBECCA ZUMA
EUROPEAN/UK/S.A.UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
BID SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY
AWARD DEPARTMENT.UNITED KINGDOM/SOUTH AFRICA
(Customer Services)

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Bid
Lottery Award International programs held in U.K your "email address" was
attached to ticket number;B9665 75604546 199 serial number 97560 This batch
draws the lucky numbers as follows 60/84/27/17/36, bonus number 2, which
consequently won the lottery in the second category. Your name have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,000.000.00(Two million
United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9030108308/03 .This is
from a total cash prize of US $ 400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred million United
States dollars) shared among the first 200 lucky winners in this category
world-wide.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada, Australia, United
States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery
was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies and some other EU
governmental personality’s part of their social responsibility to promote
South Africans 2010 world cup award. The citizens in the communities where
they have operational base.

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent
immediately with this information:

NAME:
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
PHONE/MOBILE:
FAX:
OCCUPATION:
COMPANY:
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:

The lottery program took place to promote South Africans 2010 world cup
award. Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our
Agent in South Africa Mr. FRANCIS MOMOH. For the claim of your prize. Call
him on the phone immediately you received this message because you stand a
risk of loosing the prize if you fail to claim within two month from the day
you received this notification. His contact details are as follows...

NAME: Mr. Francis Momoh
TEL: + 27-78-528-4009
Email: francismomoh_22@hotmail.com

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant
or unofficial personnel. Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Yours faithfully,
MRS REBECCA ZUMA
Online Co-coordinator
EUROPEAN.UK .SOUTH AFRICAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.

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