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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 Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <powerballclaimsenquiry@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:18:03 +0100
Subject: Your Email Wa Selected..........Batch: 0741/060/GY369

Ref: PWBL/04210X2/65
Batch: 0741/060/GY369
Winning Number: 29 32 36 39 49 {29}


Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that your email was selected for a cash prize of
720,000.00USD ( Seven Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars) in the
International programs held on the 28th of February, 2011.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in
our computerized email selection system(s) from a database of over
250,000email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world no
tickets were sold .
To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our executive
claims officer through the contact stated below with your personal
information for verification purpose contact:

Overseas Claims Unit
Power Ball Online Lottery
Mr. Micheal Goodman
E-mail: powerballvalidclaims@live.com
Tel :+447005982567

REQUIRED INFORMATION:
(a) Full Name: (b) Contact address: (c) Telephone and fax numbers:
(d) Age: (e) Occupation:

NOTE:You are to send all the information listed above to the our correspondence address stated below:
Mr. Micheal Goodman
E-mail: powerballvalidclaims@live.com

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Mikael Hildebrandt
On-line coordinator for Power Ball Online
Lottery,
Power Ball International Program.
Open 7days 8am-5pm

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