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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: E LOTTO NL <" "@widener.edu>
Reply-To: johnrylands08@yahoo.cn
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:50:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION




EEFTINK 1005.R, 1103
EA AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Reference : PW EH 9590 OG 0612,
Batch : 563881545-NL/2008

Congratulations!,

You are hereby notified that your email identity has won $2,500,000.00. after our final email draws condcuted last week.
Your ID was atached to Ticket Number: PA 3502 /8707-01.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.

For further instructions and release details, please contact your assigned claims agent,

Name: Mr.John Rylands
Foreign claims agent Netherlands Office.

Email:johnrylands08@yahoo.cn
Tel:+31 626 403 076
Fax:+31 847 455 835

You are advised to provide him with the following information:
First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

Quote your refernce and batch numbers in every correspondence to avoid delay or complications.

Yours Faithfully,
Donal Van Doni
Lottery Coordinator

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