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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: "EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY" <winners@euromillions-elot.net>
Reply-To: euromillions-capitaltf@consultant.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:53:19 +0000
Subject: LOTTERY WINNINGS: PROMPT CLAIMS REQUIRED!!!

 

      EUROMiLLiONS LOTTERY     
PRIZE/CLAIMS SERVICE DEPARTMENT
REF NO: EMIEL/2Q/744K/0P47-ER
BATCH NO.: J5-1812/01

DEAR WINNER,

REF: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.
DATE: 22-06-2005

We gladly announce the result of the EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY cyber lotto free draw programme, conducted on the 3rd of June 2005.

The cyber lotto was conducted by a first of its kind automated computer balloting system, involving over 300,000,000 email addresses worldwide. A draw was held in 6 categories and winners emerged from different parts of the world and they are entitled to various cash prizes depending on their categories. Your email address attached to ticket number: 895-023688326-04 with Serial number: 247/01 drew the lucky numbers: [ CC2Q-C572392379 ], which subsequently won as the sole elottery winning in category "C". You have therefore been approved for a bulk sum payout, of €2,500,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS ONLY) in cash. This is from a total quarterly cash prize sum €26,250,000.00 (TWENTY SIX MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EUROS) Shared amongst 15 winners.All we can say here is congratulations on your winning.

Your prize money, kept in trust with a reputable financial institution; will be released to you after proper clearance and certification of your claim. Due to mix up of some numbers, emails and names, we ask that you keep your winning information very confidential till your claim has been processed and your prize money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected randomly from the World Wide Web from over 300,000,000 extracted personal and company email address; and winners gotten through an automated computer ballot system. This promotion takes place quarterly. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our weekly lottery and others, with proceeds going to AIDS and medical research, charities and relief efforts around the world.

To file for, process and remit your claim, please contact our/your fiducial agent:

MR PIERCE DUNCAN, of
CAPITAL TRUST FUTURES CONSULTANT.

EMAIL:  euromillions-capitaltf@consultant.com
TEL:      +44 7040120825
FAX:     +44 8712436349

Note that all winnings must be claimed not later than 5th of July, 2005. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake. Please note also, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications 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 all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional cyber lotto free draw program.

NOTE: ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 16 YEARS IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

Best wishes,

MRS. MARIELLA RON DYKE,
eLOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EUROPE,THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA.

cc:  CAPITAL TF CONSULTANT.
      INFORMATION DEPARTMENT.

*WARNING:
YOU ARE ADVICED TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATION FROM ANY THIRD PARTY AS WE WILL NOT ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF YOU THE WINNER. THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF THE EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY.

_____________________________________________________
EuroMillions Lottery ©2004-2005 ("EuroMillions"). All rights reserved.

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