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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 lotto" <n.lotto@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:41:38 +0200
Subject: SPECIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY 2008
SPECIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

BE NOTIFIED THAT ON THE 30TH OF APRIL 2008.Your Email Have Luckily Won The Sum of US$420,000.00(FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR)

BRIEF WINNING INFORMATIONS:

There was a computer ballot that was organized by the NATIONAL LOTTERY South Africa.It was not an individual lotto playing, but the computer itself picked out from all over the world, 1,000,000 email addresses and it was selected and picked from the Internet, those email addresses of Participants that was selected and picked from the internet were again selected through a computer ballot system drawn from among the 1,000,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world, this is called the computer ballot. And Eight (8) email addresses was finally picked out from among the total 1,000,000 email addresses, and out of those 8 email addresses, your email address is among the winners on theballot. You have to note that this program is being sponsored by the FIFA SUPPORT AFRICAN TEAM, to creat awareness for the coming 2010 FIFA world Cup, which is to be host by South Africa.

FOR YOUR CLAIM Call Nelsen Robert Processing Director National Lottery S.A
TELL: +27-83-926-7993.
Email: nelsenrobert_claim@yahoo.com

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED ON THE COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL BALLOT SYSTEM DRAW, AS ONE OF THE WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE INTERNET COMPUTER LOTTERY DRAW.THE PROGRAM WAS HELD BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEADING LOTTERY ORGANIZATION, KNOWN AS...SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY.THE COMPUTER BALLOT QUALIFIED YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AS ONE OF THE WINNER OF THE SUM OF
US$420,000,00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR)

FOR MORE ENQUIRIES/INFORMATIONS, PLEASE DO CONTACT:(DR. NELSEN ROBERT)
THE PROCCESSING DIRECTOR CLAIM DEPARTMENT ON EMAIL ADDRESS: nelsenrobert_claim@yahoo.com. PLEASE QUOTE YOUR WINNING REFRENCES,SUCH AS YOUR WINNING NUMBERS: 2-9-22-23-24-30 BONUS 5, REFERENCE: 474061725/07 AND BATCH NUMBERS: 7056490902/188, WALSO FURNISH HIM WITH YOUR FULL NAME, YOUR WINNING E-MAIL AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO LOCATE YOUR FILE EASLY.

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET LOTTERY SCAMS, WE ARE DOING THIS TO PROTECT OUR CLIENTS TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM AND UNWARANTED TAKING ADVATEGE OF THIS PROGRAM BY NON PARTICIPANT OR UNOFFICIAL PERSONEL.YOU ARE ADVISED NOT TO EXPOSE YOUR WINNING DETAILS, SO THAT THE SCAMMERS COULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR WINNING INFORMATION. CALL DR. NELSEN ROBERT.

THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT TO YOU BY:

THE CHAIRMAN, LOTTERY ORGANIZER SOUTH AFRICA, MR. JABULANI THABO
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION, SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL LOTTERY MUTUAL PARK JAN SMUTS DRIVE, PINELANDS GAUTENG 7405
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA.

Once again Congratulations to you all!!

MRS NANCY WANG
Cordinator.


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