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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "ron bosman" <cobiplay01@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:24:51 +0000
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION!!

COMBIPLAY LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
COMBIPLAY LOTTERY-WHEEL E-GAME 2005
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM
ADMIRAALSTRAAT 104 1053 GW
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS

FROM:THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION DEPT.
REF: CMBNL/4240039609/RFE
BATCH: CMP/12863/XZ


Dear Winner,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations!!We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of the COMBIPLAY LOTTERY WHEEL-E-GAME.The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 20.000.00
companies/corporate bodies and 30.000.000 individual email addresses from
Europe,North & South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand,Middle-East and
Africa.Picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.No tickets
were sold.
After this automated computer ballot,your e-mail address emerged as one of
the winners in the category "A" with the following:

REFERENCE NUMBER: CMB/3086/2508/05
Batch Numbers CPR4/B549-24
SECURITY FILE NUM:CMP/76231/007
serial number 45-18 drew the
lucky numbers 34-88-56-17 12.

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Euros),each as payout for Category A
winners.This is from the total prize money shared among the winners in this
category.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,statutory
obligations,verifications,validations and satisfactory reports.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"winners
with the information below:

MR.ROLAND BOSMAN.
COMBIPLAY LOTTERY SECURITY AGENCY,
DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU).
Tel:+31-626-248-172.
FAX:+31-847-306-332.
Email: combiplayagent@netscape.net


You are expected to provide the following details below to your claims
agent:
1) BATCH,REF.NUMBERS AND SECURITY FILE NUMBER.
2) FULL NAMES
3) AGE
4) MAILING ADDRESS
5) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
6] NATIONALITY/COUNTRY
7) EMAIL ADDRESS

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days.After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference informations in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lottery informations away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers.(This is important as a case of
double claims/impersonation will not be entertained).

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs.Veronica Van Basten.
(Lottery Coordinator)

N.B Any breach of confidentiality Or Secrecy on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification and if you are below 18 years of age, you are
automatically disqualified. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your
Claims agent immediately.


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