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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: "Mrs. Joy Charlotte" <joycherlote@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sa.worldcup2010@webmail.co.za
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:46:47 -0700
Subject: OFFICIAL LETTER (Contact: MR. MIKE SPHIWE)


SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP LOTTERY 2010

Lottery headquarters:
464, Braxton court,
Carlton, eastgate
Johannesburg.


Reference number: ZAR/2324514325/2010

Batch number: SAA/2008/ZAR


Congratulations. The South African football association, safa is proud to
inform you that you have just won Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars (US$2.500, 000.00).


This lottery is sponsored by South African football association, safa with
fifty-six, 56 cooperate bodies.South Africa will be hosting the soccer world
cup in the year 2010.this will be the first ever World Cup to be held in the
continent of Africa. And we are celebrating this golden opportunity with
this lottery.


We are also using this lottery to create awareness towards the hosting of
the world cup in 2010 in South Africa.Don't be surprise that you are one of
our winners. The aims of this lottery are to surprise our winners.


However no previous notification is given before your email address was
picked for this lottery. Generally email address are picked, the draws are
processed by the computer through a special program that is special
designed for this lottery, the program is known as Random Access Program
(RAP)


This software picks email addresses from the internet and through a random
process, picks the winners through their email address.


CLAIMING OF PRIZE

To claim your cash prize please contact the lottery manager MR. MIKE SPHIWE
immediately with the following information:

Contact: MR. MIKE SPHIWE
Email: sa.worldcup2010@webmail.co.za

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Joy Charlotte
Promotions manager
World cup 2010
South Africa

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