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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: "FIFA/SA 2010 DRAW" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lkingagent01@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:34:00 +0200
Subject: Re: YOUR EMAIL WON (FIFA/SA 2010 AWARD)

The South Africa football federation announces to you the draw of South Africa 2010
Soccer World Cup Awareness Grant Award programs held in Zurich, Switzerland, your
e-mail address won the sum of grant prize category.

The FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 awareness Grant program is intended to promote and
create awareness worldwide for the first even FIFA Soccer world cup that will be hosted
in Africa soil, Participants were randomly selected from World Wide Web site through
computerized draw system and extracted from over (100,000 000) companies and
individual emails addresses.

In the draw, your e-mail address attached to ticket number: Reference Batch Number is:
(B9665 75604546 2010) with Serial Number (97560 DRAW) drew the winning number
(60/84/27/17/36), which subsequently confers on you the Grant Award, in category A.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$1,000,000.00 (One Million
United States dollars)in cash credited to file (KPC/9030108308/03).this is from a total
cash prize of US$4,000,000.00,shared among the 10 lucky winners world-wide.

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 program by some
unscrupulous elements

To file for your claim contact your Award/Claims Manager with details below:
Mr. Lewis King
Tel: +27 783 033 215
Email: lking1950@gmail.com
Forward you information's as listed below
1. Name: __________
2. Address: __________
3. Occupation: __________
4. Age: __________
5. Sex: __________
6. Country of Residence: __________
7. Cell/Telephone Number: __________
8 Reference Batch Number:_____________
9 Serial Number: _______________

Sincerely,

Mrs. Edith Zuma
Online Co-ordinator

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