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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: NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE <ruudvanwit@netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:55:36 +0200
Subject: NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE


POWERBALL LOTTO. BV
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game
Date:21st-OCTOBER-2005
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING
Europe / America private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to
your notice of the final draw result of 21st October-2005 POWERBALL
LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate
office complex in The Netherlands. Most recently this foundation set up
the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT
SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of
Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote
music, theater, art, literature, projects is the social and political
arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher
education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of
your email coupon number that was selected among the 45 lucky
consultation prizewinners. Your email ID identified with coupon No.
PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System
(ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled
for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different
email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider
companies. You have won a consultation cash prize of US $ 500,000.00
(Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only.
The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your
consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by
the official Payment Agency Board. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will
render to you complete assistance and provide additional information
and processes for the claims of your consultation prize.
For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU
Information Officer Mr: Cally Martins whom has been assigned to assist
you.
Contact NAME: Cally Martins
E-mail: anniwin@netscape.net
TEL: +31-610-202-853
FAX: +31-847-551-948
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL
LOTTO -wheel Email-games.
Regards,
Helen Ince (Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)
NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and
regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45
lucky consolations prize Winners. This notification also contains
information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or
otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right
recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with
the winning information’s you are not authorized to read, print,
retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

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