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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: =?utf-8?Q?=C5=98eh=C3=A1kov=C3=A1_Jarmila?= <winner@skl.de>
Reply-To: manager_skl_2008@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:29:54 +0200
Subject: !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.

SUDDEUTSCHE KLASSEN PROMOTIONS
SKL-GUNTHER, KRONACHER STR.
60 D-96052 BAMBERG
GERMANY
http://www.skl.de
!!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.
The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International
Awareness Promotion Department of the SUDDEUTSCHE KLASSEN, wishes
to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in
this years' SUDDEUTSCHE KLASSEN International Awareness Promotion
(IAP) held on 15th of september 2008,in London, England.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
1,000,000.00 Euros i n cash credited to file SKL/Millionenformel/05/12.
This is from total prize money of 50 Million Euros shared among
the first fifty (50) lucky winners in this category.
The selection process was carried out through random selection
in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database
of over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email
address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with
ticket number: 644-701-836-872 and serial number: 65-5524 was
randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation
prize winners.For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below, stating your receipt of this notification.

Remittance Manager:
Mr.Williams Gills.

Phone:+447031813532
EMAIL: manager_skl_2008@hotmail.com

VERIFICATION FORM:
1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) TICKET NUMBER:
13.) SERIAL NUMBER:

Congratulations once more, and keep trusting SKL .

Mrs.Violletta Kclose
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS,
SUDDEUTSCHE KLASSEN PROMOTIONS.
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.

THE SKL INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION
COPYRIGHT ©2008. ALL RIGHTS RESERVE

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