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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: "shawstaker39 shawstaker39" <shawstaker39@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:49:38 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY.

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY, SOUTH AFRICA.


Attn:

We are pleased to inform you of our announcement today 21st August 2007 of
winners in the SHAWSTAKERS LOTTERY Promotional draw held on the 30th June
2007.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as
part of our electronic business Promotions Program. You qualified for the
draw as a result of you visiting various e-business website we are running
on the Internet.

A ticket number 100-309-7482,with serial number 111 410-887 was attached to
your entry which drew the lucky numbers 1 10 29 37 45 49 and consequently
won in the Third category.You are therefore awarded a cash prize of
£900,000.00,pounds which is the winning payout for third category
winners.This is from the total prize money of £13,650,000.00 pounds
shared among several international/local winners in the Third category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

You are to file in your claim to the director of claims department with the
information below to arrange for your payout,

Name: ADV.LARRY MORE Esq.
Phone: +27 783 451 610
Email Address: advocatelarrymore@gmail.com



Ensure that you contact the claim department not later than 21 days from the
day you receive this notification message.


Sincerely
Mr Philip Allberth
Program Coordinator.

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