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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: admin@worldlotterysa.com
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 13:51:06 -0800
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
WORLDLOTTERY, SOUTH AFRICA.

DEAR SIR/MADAM

We are pleased to inform you of our announcement today, 12th July 2005 of winners in the WORLD LOTTERYSA Promotional draw held on the 5th July 2005. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various e-business website we are running on the Internet.

A ticket number 100-309-7482,with serial number 111 410-887 was attached to your entry which drew the lucky numbers 1 10 29 37 45 49 and consequently won in the second category.You are therefore awarded a cash prize of US$900,000.00, which is the winning payout for Second category winners.This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared among several international/local winners in the Second category. CONGRATULATIONS!

You are to file in your claim to the director of claims department with the information below to arrange for your payout,

Mr. Mike Adams
Tel: 27-73-763-6562
Email: mikeadams@worldlotterysa.com

Ensure that you contact the claim department not later than 21 days from the day you receive this notification message. Sincerely,

MR FRED WILLIAMS.
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
WORLDLOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.

Anti-fraud resources:

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