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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: <smold25@ny.com>
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 10:10:42 +1000
Subject: CONSULTATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICEedalbiz@hotmail.com, dorc32@db.za, ace97@mto.infi.net, cd_dart@yahoo.com, Ursula_Darker@yahoo.com, darling.vandb@home.com, ginny2010@yahoo.co.uk, spero@soundworld.hl.com.au, Earl_Davidson@bc.sympatico.ca, macdhaibhidh@btinternet.com, davidsfg@aramco.com.sa, gwdlanc@redrose.net, wdavies@execulink.com, jackdavies@talk21.com, johnandmoira2@bigpond.com.au, sad5@le.ac.uk, davisonr@cadvision.com, devans@tallships.ca, davo@global.net.au, ccd1062@aol.com, Cdawson@firstam.com, smoky@

POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv

POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2005,

Date: 30th-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. Carl Eckebus who has been
assigned to assist you.

Contact E-mail:eckebus1@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 Solace Mold
(Group Coordinator)


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NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and
regulations, this tification 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&#8217;s you are not authorized to read, print,
retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

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