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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "lottery House" <lottoprocessing@web.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:32:47 +0100
Subject: CLAIM WINNINGS

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
ATTENTION:THIRD CATEGORY WINNER
DEAR WINNER,
After a successful completion of the third category draws of EURO
AMERICAN LOTTERY, held on 8TH NOVEMBER, 2004, we are pleased to inform you
of the official announcement today, that you have emerged one of the
winners of the EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, which is part
of our promotional draws.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as
part of our International Promotions Program.
Your email, attached to ticket number 714-5-9827, with serial number
14-83 drew the lucky numbers 03, 15, 23, 25,35, 40! , (30), and
consequently won in the Third Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum
pay out of 1.2 million United State Dollars in cash, which is the
winning payout for each third category winner. This is from the total prize
money of 19.2 million United states dollars shared among the sixteen 
international winners in the Third category. CONGRATULATIONS.
The entire payout for third category winners amounting to  19.2 million
United State Dollars is currently deposited in an escrow account with
our corresponding bank, the entire sum insured . To avoid mix up of
numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until the entire process of transfering your claims
has been completed, and your winnings remitted to you via one of the
payment options available to you. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participant! s of this
program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year (2004) high stakes
where you stand a chance of winning up to 5 million United State
Dollars.
Please contact your claims agent immediately,to begin your claims
process;
MR DOUGLAS WOODSTOCK
CLAIMS DEPT. MANAGER,
EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY UK
EMAIL: lotocontact@yahoo.co.uk
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, remember, you
must contact your claims agent to commence claims process.
NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of
your correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: E-A-L549-1
BATCH NUMBER: 277-DT
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you
Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EURO AMERICAN LOTTERY UK.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification.
Do not reply! to this mail. Contact your claims agent.


 



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