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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: "MACAU CASINO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <macaulottoagent@macaupromo.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:33:20 +0800
Subject: 2009 MACAU CASINO PROMO

MACAU CASINO JUMBO DRAW
FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER,
ASIA PACIFIC CHINA
Customer Service
Ref: MC/7146x4/99
Batch: 132/756/4007

PAYMENT TO MAKE BY ATM CARD ONLY

Due to the large profit being earn by the Casino and moguls and related tourist attraction here in Macau,
with revenue running into billions the promotion council have decided to help stimulate the world economy
by email balloting of people that have email in the internet by random selection and your email is among the
selected email and you are qualify to receive the lump sum of USD500,000.00
And due to fraud assocaited with this type of promotion we have instructed all payment to be made through
ATM CARD payment so that all winners will be able to receive their fund in their country and use the ATM CARD
to withdraw it form any ATM MACHINE in their respective countries. Your winning fall into China agent section
TO CLAIM CONTACT
Mr Florence Lai
macaulottoagent@yahoo.com.cn

1.Name in full:
2.Address:
3.Nationality:
4.Age:
5.Occupation:
6.Telephone Number:
7.Present Country:
8.Email address:
Send above information in your correspondences with your claims agent.
reply to your agent immediately,

Sincerely,
V.P FINANCE
Mr Florence Lai
LOTTO AGENT
macaulottoagent@yahoo.com.cn
macaulottoagent@macaupromo.net

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