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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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Fraud email example:

From: online online <online.3@web.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:23 +0200
Subject: ***** WINNING NOTIFICATION *****




From:Office of Co-ordinator
South African National
Lottery Headquarters:
31, Brixton Court,
Carlton,East Gate
Johannesburg.2001
Republic of South Africa.

Dear treasured winner,

***** AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION*****
onlinelottery.3-web.de.za

The South African National Lottery is pleased to announce to you the draw of South African 2010 world cup bid lottery international award programme held in Zurich, Switzerland.
Participants were randomly selected from World Wide Web site through computerised draw system and extracted from over (100,000 000) companies and individual email addresses. The 2010 lottery programme is intended to promote South Africa's 2010 soccer world cup award.

In the draw,your e-mail address attached to ticket number:Reference Batch Number is : (B9665 75604546 199) with Serial Number (97560) drew the winning number (60/84/27/17/36), which subsequently confers on you the lottery award in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States dollars)in cash credited to file (KPC/9030108308/03).This is from a total cash prize of US$80,000,000.00,shared among the first 40 lucky winners in this category world-wide.

Kindly note that your lucky winning number falls within our lottery booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in the play coupon. In view of this, your US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States dollars) would be released to you as soon as your acknowledgement or confirmation of this winning award is processed.Also in your winning package in this category,you are entitled to a first class round trip air ticket,and one month hotel reservation in one of the five star hotels,during the month of the world cup soccer tournament in South Africa by 2010.

For security reasons,you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claims are processed and your money remitted.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some unscrupulous elements.

Please proceed immediately,to file for your claim with our Award/Claims Manager for urgent release of your award prize through the contact details below:

CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT

Name: Mr.Aaron Masinga Zulu.
The Managing Director,
Omega Crossing Pty Limited
Omega Office Complex
# 1 Omega Avenue,
Randburg Johannesburg
Republic of South Africa.
TEL: +27 71 232 89 89
FAX: +27 86 618 71 27
Email: aaron.zulu@zulu.co.za [mailto:aaron.zulu@zulu.co.za]
Email: omega_crossing_za1@live.co.za [mailto:omega_crossing_za1@live.co.za]

Please be informed that all winning awards designated to the Reference Batch Number-B9665 75604546 199 must be claimed by the beneficiary only.Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result in disqualification of your claim.Contact our Award/Claims manager for confirmation and endeavour to quote your reference batch numbers in any correspondences with us.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of this promotional lottery programme.

Sincerely,

Stella Barnard
(S.A National Lottery Co-ordinator)
online.3-web.de.za

Sign:
Molefi Oliphant ( President )
Chief Operations Officer
Albert Mokoena
Chief Executive Officer
Danny Jordaan.(CEO 2010 World Cup Bid)/SAFA
Copyright © SAFA 2008



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