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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: "Alliancenet.org" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <staatclaims@aol.nl>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 01:26:37 +0100
Subject: Contact: Claim Dept Office.

Contact: Claim Dept Office.
Tel: +31- 633 968 651,
Fax: +31- 847 549 511.
Email: staatclaims@aol.nl

Send: 1. Your Full Names/Tel/Gender.......
2. Occupation...... 3. Nationality...... !

Batch nr: SPYU6868/Ref.nr: 5687SPL876.

Your email is amongst luckily selected emails that frequent
the internet from automated online ballot up-date making
you a beneficiary of 500:000:00 Euro only in category 'B'
of the online promotion. Congratulation!

Mrs. Kate Veldhuizen
Public Relation Officer.


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