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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: "TWINOXIDE INTERNATIONAL PLC" <philippe.haudrere@univ-angers.fr>
Reply-To: twinoxidecompanypromo90@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:25:57 +0200
Subject: TWINOXIDE INTERNATIONAL PLC.



TWINOXIDE INTERNATIONAL PLC.
ADDRESS:Embark Lane 23, London. United Kingdom.
PHONE:+447045707916.
WEBSITE.www.twinoxide.com
Date:22th APRIL 2010

:::::::____YEAR 2010 EMAIL ID NOTIFICATION____:::::::
Dear Winner
We at Twin Oxide International Plc office likes to officially congratulate
you for the draw that was just held by our campany which features you as the
second place winner. Our company holds promotion each year just to promote
our product and reoputation as we plan to exploit more corners of the globe
with our highly valued products line. This promotion is just one of the
various ways we presently using to achieve this global vision of ours. Your
email address with MICROS ID (DVT-31400-JHN-602TM-2XL) was luckily drawn to
be this year's second place winner of a cash prize $485,000USD.
Your Micros ID is : DVT-31400-JHN-602TM-2XL.

ABOUT TWINOXIDE®

TWINOXIDE® 0.3% SOLUTION

TwinOxide® is a unique and advanced delivery system, providing 99.9x% pure
chlorine dioxide solution in a 0.3% concentration without by-products. It is
applied as a (drinking) water disinfectant. TwinOxide® is delivered as a
powder kit of two components. Once added to a specific volume of water,
TwinOxide® reacts to a 99.9x% pure chlorine dioxide solution with a kinetic
halftime as a biocide of 30 days. As water contamination levels vary, it is
easily possible
________________________________________________________

Ensure you contact Dr,Bram Shaw who is our claims official in Europe..
United Kingdom and can understand your english and some european
languages.See details of him below.
Name : Dr.Bram Shaw
Email :twinoxidecompanypromo90@gmail.com
Address : Embark Lane 23, London. United Kingdom
Phone :+447045707916
When contacting the claims agent you should include the following if you
must
get a response from him;
_________________________________________________
*** Your Full Name
***Country
*** Address
*** Phone number
*** Fax number
*** Age
*** Gender
*** Occupation
*** next of kid
*** Winning email and Micros ID
_________________________________________________
Special greetings from the entire family of TWINOXIDE INTERNATIONAL PLC
Worldwide.
Signed,
Mrs, Li Jun Feng (Sec.announcer)
________________________________________________________________________________

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