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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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Fraud email example:

From: BrianHcummings <BrianHcummings@tsamail.co.za> (may be fake)
Date: 6 Feb 2005 11:09:33 -0000
Subject: PERSONAL



NUEVO ORO LOTTO COMPANY S.L
CALLE LIMA 27.
MADRID 28081
SPAIN.
FROM: THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT.
REF: NL/3167084000127/04 BATCH: 17/00421/IPD
RE: AWARD NOTICE.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement, of
winners of the
NUEVO LOTERIA/INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on
20TH
January,2005.
Yourcontact is attached to ticket number
106-007225644647, with serial
number 114876 drew the lucky numbers
07-13-27-29-31-47, and
consequently won the lottery in the 1A category. You
have therefore
been approved
for a lump sum pay out of One Million Six Hundred and
fourty-Seven
Thousand, Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight Euros and
Eighty-Seven Euro
Cents.(EUROS 1.647.828.87) in cash credited to file
No:LP/26510460037/02. For
all our international winners the value of the amount
comes to
($2.045.238.63 USD) Two Million Fouty-Five thousand,
two hundred and
thrity-eight United States Dollars and Sixty three
cents.
This is from total prize money of EUROS 47.640.120.00
shared among the
Fifty three local and international winners in all the
categories. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn form
116,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, Africa,
Europe, North and
South America and Asia as part of International
Promotions Program,
which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your fund is now insured to your
contact. Due to the
computer mix up of some numbers and contacts, we ask
that you keep this
award strictly from public notice until your claim has
been processed
and your money remitted to your account. This is part
of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
by participants
of this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you
will participate
in
our end of year high stakes Euros 1.1 billion
International Lottery. To
begin your claim, please contact the undersigned.
Since all we have now is the winning ticket number and
your contact
which was attached to the ticket number, we shall thus
await further
directives from you on how to have your winning paid
to you.
For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated
account . We also want to apologise for this late
notification which
was due a computer mix up.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later
than 30TH Febuary
2005. After this date, all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in
every one of your
correspondences with us. Furthermore, should there be
any change of
your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you
for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
BRIAN.H.CUMMINGS
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent
Mr. SAVERIO ALEJANDRO
EMAIL:agentsaverio@netscape.net
NUEVO ORO LOTTO COMPANY S.L
CALLE LIMA 27.
MADRID 28081
SPAIN







___________________________________________________________________________
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