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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: uili za <uiliza10@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:45:16 +0200
Subject: A G R E A T W I N N I N G



***********************************************************************A G R E A T W I N N I N G Rand Gold Mega Million Promotion team & Online Lottery*********************************************************************** CONGRATULATIONS The Rand Gold Mega Million Promotion team & Online Lottery is proud to inform you that you have won EURO 830,000.00 WHY YOU HAVE WON Your E-mail address is one of 7 lucky Addresses that have won in the weekly Promotion.***********************************************************************HOW DID YOU WIN The Rand Gold Mega Million Promotion, is a new Internet based Lottery, Whereby all winners are selected by internet/email server, this email server visits all Internet providers and email address around the globe, be it .com, .org, .net and all country web based abbreviations, as you have .ca in Canada and .uk in United Kingdom, AOL and hotmails.*********************************************************************** We select one million email addresses from all over the globe (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Australia) to run the draw; this is a bonus from Microsoft Society to email users. After the draw 7 email addresses become the winning e-mail address. ***********************************************************************
DETAILS ON THE WINNINGS SERIAL NO: WEW - ZA 2007 - QBATCH NUMBER: 2007 / DRWA / GLO
***********************************************************************Just contact our processing agent / regional claim department below for claiming of your prize and remember to quote your winning serial and batch numbers to the claim office for easy processing of your prize. That's it! ***********************************************************************IF YOU WISH TO CLAIM VIA EUROPEAN CLAIM DEPT. THEN CONTACT OUR EUROPEAN OFFICE
GOLD MEGA EURO OFFICELONDON (UNITED KINGDOM)CONTACT PERSON: MR. JAN MOSESCONTACT PHONE (0FFICE) +44 20-7060-0152 EXT. 2 GENERAL EMAIL: rukzaclaimsdept@yahoo.com : claims@randgoldza.biz***********************************************************************TO CLAIM FROM AFRICAN CLAIMS DEPT. THE CONTACT BELOW
(CLAIMS DEPT)RAND GOLD MEGA MILLION PROMOTIONS(JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA)Processing Manager: Mr. Kular Christ24hrs Tel: +27 73 4161 989*********************************************************************** Congratulations again and have a lot of fun. Notification ManagerDaniel Christiaan MaraisRand Gold Mega Million Promotion
© Copyright 2007 All rights reserved

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