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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: ORGANISING COMMITTE <notificationsnotificationss@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: organising.organisingcommittee@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: POST-FIFA WORLD CUP-SOUTH AFRICA 2010 & BRAZIL 2014


THIS MESSAGE IS FROM THE COORDINATOR,
FIFA INTERNATIONAL /LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE (LOC) PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD:   PLATINUM LOTTERY 
  ***POST-FIFA WORLD CUP-SOUTH AFRICA 2010 & BRAZIL 2014***
 
                                 CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING SELECTED IN THIS PROMO:

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is an official notification that your email address has won among others the sum of US$1, 000,000.00 (One Million U.S Dollars) only in the Final category of our Lottery Draw for the successful hosting of 2010 World Cup in promotion of the next FIFA World Cup tagged Brazil 2014.
 
Your email address was among millions of addresses extracted electronically from all football playing nations and Middle East as part of a promotional program to support and promote the game of foot ball worldwide. This is a computer ballot system draw.
The world football governing body-FIFA in collaboration with the government of South Africa and Brazil sorted the support of some Multinational Companies around the world to get this program actualized.
 
The draw of this lottery took place on the 13th of sept 2010 in Johannesburg-South Africa to mark the successful hosting/promotions for Brazil 2014 FIFA World cup and your email address drew a lucky numbers of 17, 21, 23, 37, 42, 46 and Insurance Number FIFA/SA-BRS-LOC/JJ2010-001 which came up in the second category of the sport stake under the supervision of FIFA general secretary Jerome Valke.
 
Due to the sensitive nature of this program, we have bar-coded this notification letter so as to make sure that the claimant is not swindled, as such you have to forward your winning numbers as well as your email address to an agent shown below who will facilitate the payment to you without any delay.
Claim Agent: Dr. Rod Brendan
Telephone: +27 78 725 9627 
Email: organising.organisingcommittee@gmail.com ,intlott2@sify.com,
 
Please fill the following columns and send to your agent for the processing of your winning fund. Your personal email address can be sent to him if you so desire for confidential purposes.
Full Names:……………………............                              Nationality:………………………......... .
Full Address:……………………………                           Sex: ...................Age:………………… …
Phone/Mobile:................. .....................                               Office Tel:…………………………………
Fax:.......................... ...........................                                    Occupation:............ .............................. .
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Grace Sisulu (Organiser)

 



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