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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: akabdulkalam88 <akabdulkalam88@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:53:28 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


OVERSEAS STAKES SOUTH AFRICA.
OFFICE: 8-10 NELSON MANDELA AVE, BRYSTON, JOHANNESBURG
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Contact Agent Williams Jacob
Email:Williams.jacob.2010@gmail.com
Telephone +27-83-879-5528.

REF NUMBER; OSL/653/029/03
BATCH NUMBER; AT-040-SB06-03

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Sir/madam,

We are pleased to inform you, that as a result of our recent lottery draws
held on 17th September 2013.Your email address attached to ticket number
27522465896-532 with serial number 652-662 drew lucky number
7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won 2nd category. You have therefore
been approved for a lump sum pays out of US$820,000.00 Eight Hundred and
Twenty Thousand United States Dollars

Note:
ALL participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly
through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and
30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web
sites. This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and
sponsored by eminent personalities like the sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates Of
Microsoft Inc, Multi Choice and other corporate organizations. This is to
encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.

For security purpose and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning
information’s confidential until your claims have been processed and your
money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
We look forward to your active participant in our next year USD50 Million
slot.

You are requested to contact our clearance officer below to assist you with
your winning and subsequent payments. All winning must be claim not later
than two months after the date of this notice. Please note, in order to
avoid unnecessary delay and complications remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore should there be
any change of addresses do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional
program. Please take note that all reply should be addressed to the above
email.

NOTE; YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE
BELOW 18 YEARS OF
AGE.

Sincerely yours,

Thomas Mabope.

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