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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: protea_lottery2004 <protea_lottery2004@muchomail.com> (may be fake)
Date: 24 Jun 2004 04:14:35 -0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS


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


DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR THIRD CATEGORY DRAWS

PROTEA GAMES SOUTH AFRICA wishes to inform you of the
results of It'S Promotional draws held on the 5TH 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_prescott2@interscopefinancegroup.net



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

Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later
than 30TH JUNE 2004. After this date, 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-B2
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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