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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: "EuroMillions" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <creditgrantclaimsconsult@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:08:42 +0200
Subject: Re: Notification

SPAIN LOTTRIES AND BETTING
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS COMMISSION
Manuel Tovar N°9.28034
Madrid -Spain.

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL.

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you that your email address have emerged winner
Of 331.137,39 (Euros) in SPANISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY Program held on the 17th of May 2011.
The on-line lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category "B" with the following winning information:

REF No: ES/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168

LUCKY No: 20, 21, 37, 45, and 46. STAR No: 2, 3
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of Euro (Three Hundred and Thirty-one Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-seven and Thirty-nine Cent) Only.

Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in, for their claim within the given time frame. To file for your claim, please contact the processing Consultant:

CREDIT FINANCE S. A.
Contact Person: Mr. Daniel Enrique Cortes (foreign operation Agent)
TEL: +34 693686760
FAX: +34 917686760
Email: creditgrantclaimsconsult@gmail.com

Your won Amount has been insured with your email address and Reference numbers, and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements
of the gaming board.

Note: All lottery Prizes must be claimed/Cleared not later than 15 working days from the date of this notification. After this date, all unclaimed lottery prizes will be considered as unclaimed and will be returned to the lottery board. To begin the processing of your prize claim fill in, in block letters the "FORM" attached to this mail.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Maria Cortijo Ortiz
Lottery co-ordinator
(Euro Millions)
Madrid, 01/06/2011

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