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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: "Mrs. Patricia Angello." <pat@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: info.sipclaimssdeptt@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:46:30 +0800
Subject:



Volkswagen MOTORS WORLDWIDE LTD.
Internet User Encouragement Promotions
VW Motors
P.O. Box 999
Manchester
MR2 8GD

We are officially announcing to you the result of VW Motors Email Lottery
Promotion held on the 11Th April 2010 as part of our programs to
Launch our multi million dollar office that was commissioned on 19th of
Febuary 2010 in Manchester United Kingdom. Your email was attached to
ticket number VJETTA-UK-VP990003-M4GA with draw number P93VWJ which
consequently won you in the 2nd category prize, your email address was
extracted from our electronic email extraction system which randomly
selected Fifthteen (15) Lucky Winners of which your email address was
among one of the lucky winner. You have therefore been approved for a
payout of a total sum £1,050,000 GBP (ONE MILLION & FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH
POUNDS).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We also advise that you keep your winning information very confidential as
our security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some individuals. The selection
process was carried our through our computerized Email Selection System
(ESS) which selects email from a database of over 600,000 email address
was drawn from all over the continents of the World. This promotions being
the first of its kind will now take place annually and we hope you will
also take part in our next year One Million Pounds Pound Sterling
International Lottery Game.

To file your claim, you are to contact our Customer Service Unit
authorized to conduct the necessary Verification to enable you receive
your Cash Prize.(You will receive more email upon acknowledgement of this
email).

Customer Service Unit
CONTRACTED AGENCY: EDDIE GOODMAN & ASSOCIATES
CONTACT PERSON
Mr. Eddie Goodman.
+44-703-190-7688
Email: info.sipclaimssdeptt@yahoo.com.cn
20 Queens land Road, London
SW2 3JB ENGLAND. U.K
---------------------------

You are to call your claims agent assigned for your claims, or send an
email to them, you are to provide to your agents the below under listed
information as soon as possible:

1. NAME IN FULL:
2. ADDRESS (IN FULL):
3. NATIONALITY:
4. AGE:
5. SEX
6. OCCUPATION (POSITION HELD):
7. HOME PHONE & MOBILE NUMBER:

This program is promoted and sponsored by Microsoft,Emirates Airline and
the Shell Group and we intend to use this medium to help individuals
generate fortunes, which would encourage them to expand their business
frontiers thereby creating more opportunities and assisting with
humanitarian Concerns within their immediate environment. All winning must
be claimed not later than one Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all
unclaimed funds will be returned to VW Motors Treasury as Unclaimed.

Yours in service,
Mrs. Patricia Angello.
(Programs & Events).
Material Copyright © 2009 The VW Co. Ltd.

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