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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: "Mr. Patrick G. Lopez"<lapremi@netscape.net>
Reply-To: <pedro_th@ozu.es>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:17:42 +0200
Subject: You Have Been Awarded.(Congratulations)

REFERENCE NUMBER: AMA/-6587
BATCH NUMBER: 2008/430/MCV
LINK :http://www.mahou.es/

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the released results of the Mahou S.A Promotion in conjunction with foundations for the promotion of software products organized for Software users. This Program was held on 1st July, 2009, here in Valencia- Spain. Wherein your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of €1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) . Your certificate of winnings and your cheque of (€1,500,000.00 Euro) will be sent to your contact address in your location. Mahou S.A only provides lucky winners with the sum of (€1,500,000.00 Euro) only.

To file for claims of the release of your winnings, contact the Customer Service Officer with the information below:

Loteria-Claim Processing Agent
Name: Don Pedro Thomas
Email: pedro_th@ozu.es
TEL: +34-634-033-587
FAX: +34-917-913-482

This Email Lottery is Sponsored by Mahou S.A. and all the members of MSFT Word Resource Consortium Software Promotion Companies. This internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.

Congratulations!!

Sincerely,
Mr Patrick G. Lopez
Promotions Manager.

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