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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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Fraud email example:

From: gameslotto <lottery@thisiscyberia.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:48:43 -0400
Subject: NOTIFICATION


FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT


SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR THIRD CATEGORY DRAWS

PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA wishes to inform you of
the
results of her Promotional draws held on the 5th of
June, 2004. We are
happy to officially inform you that you have emerged a
winner under our
Third Category Draws,which is part of our promotional
draws.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 40,000
names/email addresses of individuals and companies
from Africa, America,
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand as part
of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number
01-87-436, with serial
number 61-217 drew the lucky numbers 06, 10, 17, 21,
37, 38, (19) and
consequently won in the Third Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out
of US$2,500,000.00
(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) in cash,
which is the winning payout for Third Category
winners. This is from the
total prize money of US$12,500,000.00 shared between 5
international
winners in the Third category.


CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with INTERSCOPE FINANCE
GROUP insured in
your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix
up of numbers
and names of any kind, we request that you keep the
entire details
of your award strictly from public notice until the
process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your
funds remitted to your
account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants
of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of
year (2004) high
stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to
US$10.5 Million, we hope
that with a part of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin
your
claims process;

MR. PAUL PRESCOTT,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
INTERSCOPE FINANCE GROUP.
TEL/FAX: +27 828675346
EMAIL: p_prescott9@interscopefinancegroup.net

For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated
account of your choice.

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later
than 24th June,
2004. After then, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, Find
below your reference
and Batch numbers, remember to quote these numbers in
every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: PG3-B9
BATCH NUMBER: GBH-2

Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

LOTTERY COORDINATOR
PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA
65 Everson Street,
Linden - 2104,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
TEL/FAX: +27 823622669

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to
this mail. Contact your
claims agent.(TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY)




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