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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: "NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORP" <info@gsto.gov.tw>
Reply-To: dr.shawhamilton6@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:26:49 +0800
Subject: 2010 NIDEC PROMO

NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORP.
Address : 7.5.25 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Town,
Tokyo, Japan.
Phone :63563328
63561208
63567913
Fax :0574-63569811

NIDEC COPAL EMAIL PRIZE AWARDS

Dear Winner,
We at NIDEC COPAL global office likes to officially congratulate you
for the draw that was just held by our company which featured you as
the second place winner. Our company holds promotions each year just to
promote our global publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit
more corners of the world with our highly valued productsline.This
promotion is just one of various ways we are presently using to achieve
this global vision of ours.

Your email address with MICROS ID ( PLD-29103-LGT-901GH-9JL ) was
luckily drawn to be this year's second place winner of a Brand New
2007 BMW x5 car and a cash prize of $500,000.00 United States
Dollars.This money and gift we believe will enable you make some
impact in the society and possibly invest in our company in the near
future.

You are hereby requested to contact our agent for more details
on our promotion in particular before taking further actions to claim
your prize.Ensure you contact Dr.Hamilton 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.Hamilton Shaw
Address : Embark Lane 23, London. United Kingdom
Email :dr.shawhamilton6@gmail.com
Phone Contact:
When contacting the claims agent you should include the following if
you must get a response from him;
*** Your Full Name
*** Address
*** Phone number
*** Age
*** Gender
*** Occupation
*** Winning email and Micros ID ( PLD-29103-LGT-901GH-9JL
We know you must be excited and very happy about this news you have
just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to put
smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you
will need to pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo
on the BMW that you have just won for a minimum of 6months.
Special greetings from the entire family of NIDEC COPAL
Worldwide.
Signed,
Mr. Hiroshi Toriba (Snr.)
________________________________________________________
*NOTE** You must be 18years or older to claim. Late response is
not accepted.Misconduct and non adherence to instructions leads to
prize termination

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