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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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PRIMA=20INT=B4L=20ESP?= <juanmalopez1@handbag.com>
Reply-To: primaclaim@netscape.net
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 14:28:34 +0200
Subject: AWARD WINNING FINAL NOTICE

PRIMA INT´L LOTTO ESP
6265 ES-2015 DB MADRID,
SPAIN
REPLY EMAIL TO : primaclaim@netscape.net
From: The Promotions Manager Prize and Award Department.
REF: DIAQ3U761
ATTN: AWARD WINNER

JULY 2005 DRAW RESULTS/ WINNING NOTICE
Congratulations! We announce with pleasure that you have emerged as one of
the two winners of the Int'l Lotto ESP ballot draws held in the month of
JULY 2005.Be informed that your Email address is among 15,000 individuals/private
companies Email addresses selectedby our computer ballot system and have
scaled through all three draws of the Lotto In line with all Spanish Lottery
Regulations, Int'l Lotto has just concluded its annual draws for the year
2005.
We in the Int'l Lotto Spain is by this program,launching our model computer
balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of
the ever growing number of participants in our various lottery programs.
With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners
are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.By our procedures,you
were allocated to lottery ticket number 76-1102-103. Ballot 1 and ballot
2 numbers are 1102/545 and 1102/73 respectively, with serial number AA5/120920.
From the results of the final draws, you have emerged as a Prime winner in
the "A" category and therefore entitled to a winning payout amounting to
Euro770,000.00.(Sevenhundred & seventy thousand Euros )This is from the total
amountof Euro 9,000,000.00 for allocated to the two "B" category winners.
Your prize money has been insured and credited in your name to file Ref.
No. DIAQ3U761.
You are therefore to contact one of our finance Directors/ agents to immediately
claim your prize.
Please find contact information below:
MR HENRY BAYES
FINANCE DIRECTOR,
REPLY EMAILTO : primaclaim@netscape.net
Tel nº:0034-68-544-3228


Remember, you must make your claim before or on the 17th August 2005 also
you are to contact our claim agent /Finance Director immediately to avoid
funds being returned as unclaimed.All corespondence to
Mr. HENRY BAYES should have this email sent along with it and also, your
email address to which this email is sent should be clearly and boldly written
in your response.You should also include your
reference number. Also, should there be any change of your address, do inform
our account officer as soon as possible.Be advised that Lotto regulations
prohibit you from publicly disclosing your win until you have received your
prize money. This is for security reasons and to avoid cases of multiple
claims processing. Lotto holds exclusive right to terminate your claims
processing upon any breach of this condition. Congratulations again from
all our staff and thank you for being part of our international email lottery
program. It is our hope that with a part of your prize, you will
participate in our end of year high stakes Euro 1.3billion International
lotto.

Sincerely,
MRS JUANMA LPPEZ
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,












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