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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: lotteryorg@workmail.co.za
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:23:51 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS" BONO LOTTERY LUCKY WINNER

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
Mr Philip Zuma
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO LOTTERY
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

Ref: FER/4690/6103/24
Batch:245-379-482
Winning No: 2-5-9-22-23-24-30.


WINNING NOTIFICATION


Attn: We happily announce to you the draw of the EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONALBONO
LOTTERY Program , 2005. Your name "email address" was attached to ticket number;
12324277 serial number 6663817262 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
2-9-22-23-24-30 bonus number 5, which consequently won the lottery in the second
category. You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of £2,000,000.00
(TWO MILLION POUNDS) file Ref: FER/8309/1209/26 from the total cash prize of
18,000,000.00 shared amongst ten lucky winners based on their category.


All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,Australia,
United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.This Lottery
was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as including
Bill Gate, and some other EU governmental personalities part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.


To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact our claim agent with
this information:

NAME:..................................
ADDRESS:...............................
NATIONALITY:...........................
SEX:...................................
AGE:...................................
PHONE/MOBILE:..........................
FAX:...................................
OCCUPATION:............................
COMPANY:...............................
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:............................................


MR.FRED KIMAS
CLAIM AGENT
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS

Email: agentkimaclaimoffice@yahoo.com

PHONE:+27 73 47 11 442.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant
or unofficial personnel.


Note.Do not wast time in contacting our claim agent in any of the region or
the country that your winning fall within.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards
JOYCE TAYLOR
Co-coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS.

Yours faithfully,
JOYCE TAYLOR
Online coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL BONO PROMOTIONS,
Open 7 days 7am-7pm.


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