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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: "POWER BALL INC" <service@powerball.com>
Reply-To: dp_lott3030@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:47:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: 457




Powerball Lottery International
Branch Office: 48 Spethrone Groove,
TW19 7 JN,Sunbury in Thames,
Middle Sex,London.
United Kingdom
*****************************************************
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/819030L3/06
BATCH NUMBER:013/068/XY31
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458

This message is to notify you that this email address was randomly
selected among over 20 million other e-mail addresses and entered into our
free promotional lottery draws through a computer balloting system. You
have subsequently emerged a winner among ten other lucky winners and
therefore entitled to a substantial amount of$945,000.00 US Dollars in
cash credited to FileEAAL/9080118308/10.

This program is being sponsored by multi-national companies world wide
whose companies we help to promote, and is also intended to encourage
people to participate in our lottery.
For further information, kindly confirm receipt of this email, by
forwarding this message to your claims agent as stated below:

Name Of Your Claims Agent: MR. DANIEL PARK.
E-MAIL: dp_lott3030@hotmail.com
Tel:+447024025850

Note:This program is intended to encourage people to play our lottery,so
you do not need to buy our lottery tickets to win.

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,
Award Notification Team
POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC,UK

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