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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: World Cup Promotion <mikedada@live.co.za>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:16:03 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP

 

SOUTH AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP

EURO-AFRO-AMERICA-SWEEPSTAKE

LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

HEAD OFFICE WELLINGTON HOUSE
EAST ROAD, WEST RAND, JOHANNESBURG ,

SOUTH AFRICA

                              

          CONGRATULATION!  CONGRATULATION!!  CONGRATULATION!!!

 

ATTENTION LUCKY WINNER,

 

We are delighted to inform you as one of the 100 lucky winners of the result of the E-mail address ballot lottery draw of the SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP FREE LOTTERY programmed, which took place on the 4th NOVEMBER 2008.This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.

 

This lottery 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: B9665 75604546 199 with Serial number 8756-05 drew the lucky winning numbers 11/13/26/34/44/48 and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. All 100 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. World cup Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of USD$ 2,000,000.00 (Two Million Dollars) only. Your email address emerged along side 99 others as a category to winner in this year's Annual.

 

The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota, Toshiba, Dell Computer  Mackintosh .And mostly by the South African Government. The world cup free lottery draw is held once a year. And is so organized to encourage the use of internet and computers. And also to advertise the South Africa 2010 World Cup world wide. We are proud to say that over US $ 100 Million are won annually in more than 150 countries world wide.

 

Please For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. 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, please contact our Claiming Manager immediately.

 
Contact Person:

NAME: MR. MIKE DADA

Email: (mikedada@live.co.za ) (mikedada1@hotmail.com).

Tel: +27-79-442-6231  Fax 27-11-507-6254.

To affect your lottery prize claim to your bank account, you should send the below particulars to the Claiming Agent email address or our direct fax line:

 

1. Your full names:
2. Winning Numbers:
3. Contact Postal Address:
4. Private Telephone and Fax numbers:
5. your occupation:

 

Mrs. Linda Rose. 
Microsoft Promotion Team
Vice President.

  

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