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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: "Australian Lottery Dept." <lotteryonline20@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: australialott009@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 02:21:05 +0800 (CST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!!!YOUR EMAIL IS AMONG THE WINNERS OF CASH-OUT LOTTO BV2008!!)


SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY INTL.
..........WE FACILITATE YOUR FINANCIAL DREAMS...
OFFICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
AND PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Level 12, 50Grenfell St ,
Adelaide, SA, 5000
Date of issue: 29/02/2008


Dear Friend,

LETTER OF NOTIFICATION
We are delighted to inform you on the result of the E-mail address ballot lottery draws of the South Australian 2nd category cash-out lotto BV2008 international program, which took place on the 28th of February, 2008,during which your e-mail address emerged as one of our ten lucky winners . This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.

This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World Wide Web (www) sites. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number the lucky numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$250,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02.
This is from the total cash prize of US$2,500,000 Million Dollars, shared among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from nine hundred thousand e-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of Multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
We also hope that you will avail yourself this golden opportunity in realizing the objective of this program. For more information,simply contact our correspondent office through the E-mail: australialott0009@gmail.comOR contact your regional claims agent:
Rev.Paul Dalton
TELL:00447031814758
EMAIL: australialott009@gmail.com
Fill and send the form below to your claims agent.
LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT.
FULL NAME.......................... .......................
DATE OF BIRTH......................... .........
ADDRESS....................... ...........................
SEX.........................
AGE........................... .......
NATIONALITY................... ........................
OCCUPATION.................... .......................
TELEPHONE..................... .....................
EMAIL......................... ........................
DATE.......................... ............................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO.......................... .APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.
Please quote your reference and winning number which are stated above and ensure that the data is kept highly confidential for security reasonsuntil your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements, equally to guard against non participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program.
Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME. otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.
Congratulations on your winnings!!!

Yours in service,

Yours in service,


Mrs.Dwell Hope.
Executive Co-ordinator (National Lottery Agency).
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
PLEASE ENSURE YOU CONTACT OUR CORRESPONDENT OFFICE OR YOUR CLAIMS AGENT WITH HIS EMAIL ADDRESS AS WRITTEN ABOVE.(EMAIL: australialott009@gmail.com)

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

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