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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: <estellarogers2005@zwallet.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:04:22 -0500
Subject: Compliment Award Private


Compliment of the season

Dear Recipient,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First
Category draws of TRIPPLE
WINS INTERNATIONAL GAMES. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged
a winner under
the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were
held prior to your notification .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names/email
addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,America, Asia,
Australia,Europe, Middle East, and
Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company E-mail id, attached to Ref number MLI/231-ILG10431/03
,Batch Number
EAPA/15/096/PTNL, Tiicket Number 20511465897, with Serial Number 472-971103
,Drew the lucky
numbers 8-66-97-22-71-64 and consequently won in the First Category A+.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $US2.5m(Two
Million,Five Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars) each, which is the winning payout for Category" A"
winners. This is from the total
prize money of USD$15,000,000 shared among the 6 Winners in this category.


This funding was made possible by microsoft international to support the
use of mircosoft software and
improve Globalization in conjunction with European's Lotteríes.Visit our
sites for more about our weekly lottery program;

www.lotto.nl
http://www.interlotto.com/euro/


CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents Cash Change Securities
Europe ,and 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 Beneficiary
Certificate Ownership Winning Notification, Stamp duties and re-activation
of Account of your prize
/money remitted in readiness of the subsequently onward transfer into your
nominated Bank Account.

This is in conformity with the latest transfer regulation signed by the
Organization / Netherlands
Government since this is part of our Security protocol measures to avoid
double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants .


We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes draw
where you stand a chance of
winning up to USD$25 Million; we hope that with a part of your prize you
will participate in it.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your fiducial agent Mr JOHNSON
ADAMS of the EURO
ACCREDITED PAYMENT AGENT immediately for due processing and remittance of
your prize money to
a designated account of your choice:

TEL: +31-629-338-244
FAX: +31-641-593-184
Email: euroadams0@aim.com , j_adams@walla.com , euroadams@netscape.net
j_adams@HOSHMAIL.COM

You are advised to contact our agents by E-mail and/or fax within a week of
receiving this notice. Failure
to do so may warrant disqualification.


NOTE: That all winning must be claimed not later than 28th of FEBRUARY
2006. After this date all
unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.Anybody under the age
of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

Finally, we ensure that you note every letters as clearly stated as we
would not be held responsible
should there be hitch in this transaction due laxity on your part.So you
are to expedite action ,Failure to
do this we shall be compelled to lose your fund in other words,we shall
divert your fund to somewhere
else.In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications;Kindly remember
to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional
program.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. Estella Rogers
Lottery Coordinator


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