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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: "james beckham" <euromillion_winners@online-notification.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:34:56 +0000
Subject: EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO WINNERS NOTIFICATION

EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
Burdette House
Buckingham St,
London,
WC2N 6DU
TEL:(+44) 07031847342
FAX: 448700117617



Congratulations, you have just won 350,000(three hundred and fifty
thousand euro) in the satellite software email lottery in which e-mail
addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the Internet through
the world wide website.Your email address was amongst those chosen
this quarter .this is part of our middle of year bonanza .this promo is
proudly sponsored by the Euro Million lottery you can log on to our website
for more information concerning our entire lottery promo
http://www.lottery.co.uk/euro-millions.htm

Your email address,attached to ticket number 02-11-21-22-30-04-06, with
serial number 9284-30 drew the lucky numbers 30-04-06,and consequently won
the lottery in the "A" category.You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of 350,000(three hundred and fifty thousand euro).

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In
view of this, your 350,000(three hundred and fifty thousand euro)will be
released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact them. All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
companies and individual email addresses on 5th of August,2005.
This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.

To file for your claim,Please contact the underlisted claims Agent as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings.Furthermore, all
Winning Funds should be claimed not latter
than 30th of August,2005. After this date, all Unclaimed Funds will be
returned to the Euro Million lottery board for the next sweepstake.

Barr:Alan Rolf
Fiduciary Agent
EUROMILLION ONLINE LOTTO
EMAIL:ralan7031@yahoo.co.uk

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is
processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements

N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

2.Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they
want their prize paid or sent.

3.Winners must send their names,address,telephone number and means of
identification (international passport or drivers licence)to claim officer
to process immediate payment of their
prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Mr Garry Smith
Promotions Manager :

The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments may be
legally privileged and confidential.If you are not an intended recipient,you
are hereby notified that any dissemination,distribution or copying of this
e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received
this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and permanently delete the
e-mail and any attachments immediately. You should not retain, copy or use
this e-mail or any attachment for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part
of the contents to any other person.
-------------------------------------------------
The Euro Million Online Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers,Mackintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies.The Swiss online Lotto
draw is held twice yearly and is so organized to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million
Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


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