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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: "WEBSURFER ORGANIZATION" <websurferi@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:57:12 +0000
Subject: You Are A Winner

WEBSURFERS ONLINE LOTTO ORG.
NO #120, WEBSURFERS AVENUE SANDTON,
JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA,SOUTH AFRICA


NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING

ATTENTION:

we are pleased to inform you Thusday 3rd Nov 2005 as one of the lucky
winners of the NATIONAL ELECTRONIC LOTTERY INC draws, held on Tuesday 1st
Nov, 2005
as part of our e-business promotional draws.

Participants in the draws were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail 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. These emails were
compiled all through the year 2004.

You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various websites; 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 in the Last quarter of the 2004 year draw.

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

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winnings should be claimed through our claims department. 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 manager in our claims
department.

MR PETER VUNDLA
CLAIMS MANAGER
TEL: +27-72-616-9568
FAX: +27-11-507-6302
EMIAL : claimsdept@websurfersonline.org.za


for due processing and remittance of your prize money, Remember you must
contact your claim agent not later than two weeks on
receipt of this notification. After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.


Suzan De Klerk
(Promotions Manager)

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