:: Stringing-along 419 scammers for my amusement ::

This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

EMIRATES 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP LOTTO WINNER AWARD | Fake Lottery Scam

This is an internet scam! DON'T send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Dan Selter <dselter@transy.edu> Reply-to:     "Mrs. Claire Johnson" <emirates_claimsclaire3@advir.com> Subject:     Urgent Notification Date:     01/15/2010 08:04:23 PM Emirates 2010 FIFA World Cup Lotto Winner Award WINNING CONFIRMATION DETAILS =============================== File KTU/8823118308/07 Ref: BT: 12052005/29 Amount Won: 500.000.00 (G.B.P) =============================== Your email address was among the lucky winners of the Emirates/ FIFA 2010 World Cup Lotto Winner Award. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500.000.00 (G.B.P) A tailor-made travel package that will include flights, accommodation, ground transportation and match tickets in cash credited to file KTU/8823118308/07 To file and claim your winning contact your claims agent with your: (1) Full Name: (2) Age: (3) Occupation: (4) Reference Number: (5) Address: (6) Phone number: Contact Person: Mrs. Claire Johnson Email: emirates_claimsclaire3@advir.com CONGRATULATIONS! Yours Faithfully, Dr. Dan  Selter Promotions Manager EMIRATES/ FIFA WORLD CUP PROMO CYBER ANALYST Watch the world come together in 2010 and live the unforgettable with Emirates   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

EMIRATES 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP LOTTO WINNER AWARD | Fake Lottery Scam

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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NOTE TO DUMBASS SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail will get mistakenly published here as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your crap mistakenly published on this website as a 419 advance fee scam, the solution is simple. Don't mail your crap to harvested e-mail addresses.