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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: "INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT" <internationalawardepartment001@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:01:28 +0400
Subject: YOU ARE A WINNER!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR: INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT WINNING
NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

ATTENTION!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual
draw of our LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL Programs. The online cyber lotto draws
was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individuals and corporate institutions, picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet.No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref
Number: GP 14-M-246-04,Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2006 and Ticket Number:
PP 3502 /8707-01.

You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. ( Two
Million Five Hundred Thousand ) from the totalpayout.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To file in for the
processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our
Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the
information below:

************************************************
MR.KELVIN MARKSON
Phone:00 31 633 757 078
Email: kelvin_markson09@yahoo.de

************************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Age:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than (14) days;
thereafterunclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to
quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lottery information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claim
will not be tolerated).Members of affiliated agencies are PROHIBITED from
participating in this program.

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.

regards,

Walter Jones.

Lottery Coordinator.




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