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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: "Gladis Morgan" <gladismorgan@ny.com> (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:16:38 +0300
Subject: CONSULTATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE


POWERBALL LOTTO. BV

POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2005,

Date: 9th-April-2005
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

RE: CONSULTATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International,
officially bring to your notice of the final draw
result of the 20th March-2005 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
E-game which was conducted at our international
corporate office complex in The Netherlands.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY
SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT
SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to ncourage
the use of Internet for academic and business
pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater,
art, literature, projects in the social and political
arena with a focus on health, as well as science,
research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the
selection of your email coupon number which was
selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize
winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No.
PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random
Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000
different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.
Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different
email addresses submitted by our partner international
email provider companies.

You have won a consultation cash prize of US $
500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout
of your consultation cash prize which will be
remunerated directly to you by the official Payment
Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render
to you complete assistance and provide additional
information and processes for the claims of your
consultation prize. For due processing of your winning
claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr.
mark moody who has been assigned to assist you.

Contact E-mail:fileofficer1@uk2.net
TEL:0031-621-987-260
FAX:0031-847-300-537

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your
consultation prize winning, we hope you will partake
our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel Email-games.
Regards
Mrs GLADIS MORGAN
(Group Coordinator)


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NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel
E-games policy and regulations, this notification is
dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation
prize Winners. This notification also contains
information that is proprietary, privileged or
confidential or otherwise legally exempt from
disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose
email address attached to the lucky numbers along with
the winning information’s you are not authorized to
read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice
or any part of it.


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