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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: <bmwinfo@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: bmwnotifier_dept@live.com
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:43:43 +0200
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION



--

We wish to inform you that Your email address has emerged as one of the winners in the 2010 BMW AUTOMOBILE E-MAIL PROMOTION held in London, this makes you a winner of £500,000.Your name will be on our top records as luckiest E-MAIL for the year 2010.Your email address was randomly selected from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from the WORLD-WIDE-WEB. A ticket number was attached to each email address and your email address tagged ticket number: 5647600545188, serial number: BMWAMP/556543450906 and Reference Number: BMWAMP:2551256003/23 emerged as the star ticket email.

To begin processing of your prize contact:
Engr Phillip Brown,
Agent
E-mail:bmwnotifier_dept@live.com
Phone:+447045746721.
Contact him, with your, Serial No: BMWAMP/556543450906 and Ref
No:BMWAMP:2551256003/23.

Also provide listed information:
VERIFICATION FORM:
1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) OCCUPATION/:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
12.) TICKET NUMBER:
13.) SERIAL NUMBER:


Regards,
Engr Chris Blee

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