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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: moyo moyo <gregmoyo_028@hotmail.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:50:55 +0000
Subject:



BRITISH SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUPBID ONLINE GAME - 2008

South Africa Lottery Headuarters:Customer Service

Batch: 14/211/0374 Ref: BTL/311OXI/02
WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the British South Africa 2010 world cup lottery bid online programs 2008 held in London to suport and promote south african 2010 world cup, Your e-mail address attached, to ticket number: 694 75600545 721 with Serial number: 886/04 drew the lucky numbers 4- 13 -21- 27- 36 -38 , which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of $1.500,00( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44. This is from a total cash prize of $125 Million US Dollars.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet and our representative office in South Africa as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your USD1.500,000 ( ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in SOUTH AFRICA (FNB) FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him or you call him on +27-733-181-653.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This promotion takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent immediatly with this informations.
NAME:..................................
YOUR BANK NAME................ PRESENT ADDRESS:...............................NATIONALITY:...........................SEX:...................................AGE:...................................PHONE/MOBILE:..........................FAX:...................................OCCUPATION:............................COMPANY:...............................BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:............................................

Agent Name: Mr.Richard Baloye
Email: richardbaloyezonaloffice@tsamail.co.za
TELE:+27-733-181-653

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
MR. Richard Baloye
Zonal Coordinator




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