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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: "E-LOTTERY EUROP INC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fixxxer-83@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:42:24 +0530
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!

EUROP E-LOTTERY INC
The Promotion Department
22 Garden Close, Stamford ,
Lincs , PE9 2YP ,
London United Kingdom .

Dear email owner,

We are pleased to notify you the "Winner" of our last Secured Mega Jackpot
Online Sweepstakes result.

This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all
email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected
from an internet resource database of registered software and domain users.

We are glad to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Million,
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only.
and one MacBook Pro Laptop in our last E-lottery promotional draw.

The online E-lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an
advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets
were sold.

Reference Number: EU-14/AA002351-ES
E-ticket number: EU1274/2010-12
Category: A
Amount:Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only.

You may wish to establish contact with your claims agent via e-mail with
the particulars presented below:

Contact: Cenard Perr Gatewill
Tel: +448712379877
Event Manager II

In line with the governing rules of claim, you requested to furnish Cenard
Perr Gatewill With the following information:

Full Name..........
Telephone Number...........
Fax Number...........
Home Address.............
Date Of Birth........
Occupation.............
Office Address
Prize Amount...........
E-ticket number:............
And Reference Number;..........

Yours Truly,
Anna Maria Gomez
Event Manager

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