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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Fraud email example:

From: promotiondept2004@websurfer.co.za
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 20:00:04 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!

RELIABLE LOTTERY ORG.
124 RANBURG ROAD, MELVILLE,JHB,SOUTH AFRICA.

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING.

ATTENTION:

We are pleased to inform you of the annousement today ,24th
June 2005 as one of the lucky winners of the RELIABLE
LOTTERY ORG. PROMOTIONAL DRAW; held recently , Friday 17th
June 2005, as part of Our e-business promotion.

You qualified for the draw as a result of you
surfing/visiting various web sites we are running the
Electronic-business promotions for. You/Your Company e-mail
address, attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR 23457677/2004
BATCH NUMBER:79-124-WAN with serial number 818-09 drew the
lucky numbers 2-9-22-23-24-30, and consequently won the
lottery.

You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of
US$2,200,000.00 in cash, which is the winning pay out for
First category winners. This is from the total prize money
of US$15,000,000.00 shared among the seven winners in the
Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Bank.As we
have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may arise from
emails of winners and numbers we ask that you keep this
award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in
our end of year (2005) high stakes US$1.1 billion
International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact
our claims Department in our International Electronic Email
Selection claims department.

CLIAMS AGENT
Name: DR. JOHN NKOSI
Tel: +27-83-749-4916.
Email: claimsagent@websurfer.co.za


For due processing and remittance of your prize
money,remember you must contact your claim agent not later
than two week. Otherwise all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.

Once again we say Congratulation.

Thanks,
Mrs. Suzan De-Klerk
Promotions Manager

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