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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: info mail <infomaildept@web.de>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:32:29 +0200
Subject: The online cyber lotto draws





Attn:

We the members of the Euro Millones International Lottery Board are pleased to inform you of the results from our just concluded lottery draws. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 2,000,000 email addresses comprising of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your email address emerged as a category "A" Winner. You are to receive a cash prize of US 950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only). Your prize award has been insured with your email and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report . T o get your above stated prize, you are advised to contact our fiducial agent immediately via email with your winning information stated below and personal datas requested below;

(I) Batch No: BCA/022/CAC
(ii) Ticket No: 197 -033-02345
(iii Lucky No: 04-6-8-12-24
(iv) Ref No: MTD/SAN/9500/LAS.

Fudicial Contact Information below;
Name: Mr. Miguel Fernando.
Email: finsburyagencia@aim.com [mailto:finsburyagencia@aim.com]

Sincerely,
Dr. (Mrs). Emilo Sanchez.
for EURO MILLONES INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD.

NOTE: Your winnings should not be in anyway disclosed to any one until you have successfully claimed your prize. All irreqular, suspected or multiple claims will be rejected resulting to a forfeit of prize.




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