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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: "royalamster international" <luckydayinfo12@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 04:26:56 -0600
Subject: ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM
BERGNNA-STRAAT N° 21
267890 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS.
FROM: THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION DEPT.

SECURITY FILE NO:DL/678921/C11.
REF: ICL/4245678609/LMR.
BATCH: ML/91663/BAN.

We are pleased to inform you that your email has been selected a winner of
the ROYAL AMSTER LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAMS held this year!!

Your email address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954, drew the
lucky numbers 7-14-21-42-49-59, batch number ML/91663/BAN. and consequently
won the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved of a
lump sum pay out of EURO 250.000.00 (Two Hundred and fifty Thousand Euro) in
credited to file Lottery Reference number
ICL/4245678609/LMR. This is from total prize money of Euro 1,000,000.00
shared among the 4 international winners in categories B with security
file number:IL/FLW/12-C036789192.All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from 45,000 company email addresses and
80,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia,Africa,New Zealand,
America, Europe,North America and Asia as part of International Promotions
Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a financial Security company
insured in your FILE REFERENCE.Due to the mix up of some numbers and
names,we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your
claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is
part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts
by participants of this program.
This lottery program was promoted by our group of philanthropist and Dutch
Royal family here in Netherlands. We hope with a part of you prize, you Will
participate in our end of year high stakes EURO 25,000,000.00 million
International Lottery.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary Agent:
Mr.Peter Gutman
Diamond Finance BV
Amsterdam,Netherlands
Phone: +31-617-582-414
Fax: +31-84-719-1553
Email:claimsagent2@tangana.com

Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon
satisfactory Report, verifications and validation provided by our
processing Agent; that would be designated to your file. For due processing
and remittance of your winning prize to your designated account of your
choice. Be informed that all prize money must be
claimed not later than two(2) weeks after this date of notification all
funds will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you are to
contact Mr.Peter Gutman with followings details below:

1. Your full names, telephone, contact address and
2. quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our
designated agent.
Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from our team
of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional Program.

Yours sincerely,
Ms.Linda Van Voss

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification


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