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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: National Lottery <host_2010aa26@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:21:01 +0000
Subject: SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION




THE SOUTH AFRICA 2010 NATIONAL LOTTERY


UNIVERSAL BUILDING, 210-211
PARK HURST,BALFOUR-UNIR 1440
JOHANNESBURG.GAUTENG 2001
P.O BOX91711.
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICAN


ATTEN:Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 5 lucky winners in the email lottery programme draw of the SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL LOTTERY held on the 1st of OCTOBER 2007. All 5 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 5,000.00 international emails, your email address emerged along side with 4 others as a category 6 winners in this year's SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL LOTTERY award Draw.

Most recently the foundation set up the NEW HOPE LOTTERY to give out prizes based on the computer ballot system (THEREFORE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY A TICKET TO ENTER FOR IT.YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS A WINNER).
Consequently, you have therefore been approved a MEGA JACK POT of (US$ 2,000,000,00 ONLY) The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:



(i)Result winning numbers: 4-10-20-23-46-48-30-7
(ii)Email number: SM/2774/35/98
(iii) Lotto code number: ZPD82649PK
(iv)The file Ref number: HL/05/37504327/ES

Please contact our claim agent below




NAME: Mr. EVANS ZUMALI.
Email (claim2010manager@yahoo.co.uk)
TEL: (002 772 036 7281)

The claim agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize money to you. If you do not contact and process your winning prize, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

N.B: Procedures to claiming your prize:

(1). YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS, COUNTRY, TELEPHONE, MOBILE, FAX NUMBERT, OCCUPATION AND AGE.


(2) PLEASE CHECK YOUR WINNING INFORMATION FORM AND FILL IT COMPLETE AND SEND BACK TO US FOR IMMEDIATE PROCESSING OF YOUR PAYMENT

(3) REMMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL TO AVOID BEING STOLEN BY BUSINESS HIJACKERS ON THE INTERNET.

(4)YOU HAVE LIMITED TIME FOR YOUR CLAIM.AS ANY CLAIM APPLICATION
THAT FAILS TO REACH OUR OFFICE WITHIN FOURTEEN WORKING DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS NOTIFICATION WILL BE CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID.
Furthermore, should be any change of address Pls Inform the CLAIM AGENT as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff.








PLEASE FILL THE BELOW FORM









SURNAME, OTHER NAMES




MARRITAL STAUS




OCCUPATION




AGE




SEX





ADDRESS ,HOME &OFFICE









TELE /FAX NUMBERS





RESULT WINNING NUMBERS







EMAIL NUMBER





LOTTO CODE NUMBER





AMOUNT WON







THE FILE REF NUMBER




STATE/PROVINCE





NATIONALITY






DATE.












Sincerely,
MRS. Lilan Khumalo LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR
_________________________________________________________________
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