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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: "South Australia Lottery INC" <online_jackpot@msn.com>
Reply-To: <marknelson_claimagent@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:38:25 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION !!! YOU HAVE WON EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS





South Australia Lotteries
23 Rundle Mall, Adelaide,
South Australia.

Date: 9/3/2007
Ref: 7458222754/06/06
Batch: 905534213/255
Winning no: 2-17-43-47-52
CONGRATULATIONS !

DEAR WINNER

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND US DOLLARS (800,000.00) for the month of March,2007 Lottery
Promotion which is organized by South Australia Lotteries INC , for new
year bonanza.

South Australia Lotteries, collects all the email addresses of YAHOO
users and WINDOWS users, among the millions that subscribed to
Yahoo,Gmail and Hot mail we only select five people every Month as our
winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of
Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Center.South Australia Lotteries Prize must be claimed no later than 10 days
from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has
won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:


Batch number.....................905534213/255
Ref number.......................7458222754/06/06
Winning number...................2-17-43-47-52


These numbers fall within the UK agent's Location file, you are
requested to contact them and send your winning identification numbers
to them via the following email addresses.


E-Mail (rev_marknelson@mail.ru) or (ah_fatima.agent@yahoo.com)
PHONE NUMBER:+44-7031944695



You are therefore advise to send the following information to the
Cliams Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund.

1. Your Full Names........................
2. Country................................
3. State .................................
4. Contact Address........................
5. Telephone/Mobile Number................
6. Marital Status.........................
7. Gender ................................
8. Occupation.............................
9. Age....................................
10.Date of Birth .........................
11.Religion ..............................
12.E-mail ................................
13 Amount Won ............................

Best Regards,
mrs agnes austinc(co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT :
(rev_marknelson@mail.ru) or (ah_fatima.agent@yahoo.com) ANY BREACH OF
CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION.


Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,

Mrs. agnes austinc
cordinator.


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