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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: "Kenneth Alexander" <hkiu@un.org >
Reply-To: bwin_desk110@outlook.com
Date: 19 Jul 2017 00:42:29 -0400
Subject: Bwin LOTTERY PROMO AWARD

BWIN PARTY in conjunction with GVC Holdings PLC!
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE(CSRI)
LOTTERY PROMO AWARD

32 ATHOL STREET-DOUGLAS
ISLE OF MAN-1M1 1JB
LONDON


A multinational sports betting and gaming group, incorporating
Sporting-bet, bwin and PartyGaming, With licenses in 14
countries, generating over €4.2billion of sports wagers a year.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws held on the (20th of June, 2017) at the just
concluded Annual General Meeting

("AGM") by Bwin in conjuction with GVC Holdings PLC Gaming Prize
Consumer Promotion Award

Your email was among the 11 Lucky winners who won E1,500,000.00
(One Million, one hundred Thousand Euros) each on the Bwin
LOTTERY PROMO AWARD.

However, your email was attached to ticket number (7XBYZ2017) and
ballot ticket number BTN:41632017/20). The online draws was
conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an
exclusive list of 2,900,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer
search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all
email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for
representation and privacy.

To claim your winning prize of E1,500,000.00 (One Million, one
hundred Thousand Euros) prize winning, kindly reconfirm the below
and send it to the paymaster for your

identification and winning prize release.

NAME: ……………………………………………………AGE:……………………SEX:………………FULL
ADDRESS:…………………………………PHONE:……………………………………………………NATIONALITY:………………
………………………BTN:…………………………………………

You are advised to ensure that you file and process your claims
not later than 14 days from this notification, Any case of double
filling or claims will lead to automatic cancellation of prize

For your prize release call or email the paymaster via the below
contact details.

Chief Financial Officer ("CFO")
NAME: Paul Miles
E MAIL: bwin_desk110@outlook.com


Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Alexander
Chief Executive

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