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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: dstakes1@handbag.com
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 07:44:40 -0700
Subject: RE : RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

Dear Recipient,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the First
Category draws of DUTCH STAKE OUT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS B.V.

We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First
Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held prior
to your notification .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000
names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,America, Asia,
Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions
Program.

You/Your company E-mail id, attached to Ref number MLI/231-ILG10431/03 ,Batch
Number EAPA/15/096/PTNL, Tiicket Number 20511465897, with Serial Number 472-971103
,Drew the lucky numbers 00-23-36-06-45-75 and consequently
won in the First Category A+.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $US2.5m(TW0 Million,
Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each, which is the winning payout
for Category" A" winners. This is from the total prize money of USD$10,000,000
shared among the 6 Winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents Cash Change Securities
Europe ,and insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid
mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of Beneficiary
Certificate Ownership Winning Notification, Stamp duties and re-activation
of Account of your prize /money remitted in readiness of the subsequently
onward transfer into your nominated Bank Account. This is in conformity with
the latest transfer regulation signed by the Organization / Netherlands Government
since this is part of our Security protocol measures to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes draw
where you stand a chance of winning up to USD$25 Million; we hope that with
a part of your prize you will participate in it.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your fiducial agent Mr HAROLD
KENNEX of DUTCH STAKE OUT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS B.V, immediately for due processing
and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

TEL: +31-644-866-137
FAX: +31-847-483-989
Email:dstakes1@excite.com

You are advised to contact our agents by E-mail and/or fax within a week
of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.


NOTE: That all winning must be claimed not later than 15th of June 2005.
After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake.Anybody
under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Finally, we ensure that you note every letters as clearly stated as we would
not be held responsible should there be hitch in this transaction due laxity
on your part.So you are to expedite action ,Failure to do this we shall be
compelled to lose your fund in other words,we shall divert your fund to somewhere
else.In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications;Kindly remember
to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours Truly,

Mrs. LORRAINE DODDS
Lottery Coordinator


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