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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: alexandria reyes <alexandriazreyes@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:39:01 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION:AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE


*

FROM THE DESK OF*
*

EUROPE ELGORDO
SWEEPSTAKE
LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL MADIRD SPAIN.
ATTENTION:AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE*
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
today,22rd October, 2005 of winners of the EUROPE
ELGORDO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/ INTERNATIONAL, PROGRAMS
held on 10th Ocotober, 2005. Your email address is
attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with
serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky numbers
43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently won the lottery in
the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000:00(one million
united states of america dollars)in cash credited to
file REF NO. ESW/25041238013/03. This is from total
prize money of US$80,400,000.00 shared among the
seventeen international winners in this category. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from a collation of frequent internet
users from all over the world from Australia, New
Zealand, America,Europe, North America,Africa, middle
east and Asia as part of International Promotions
Program, which is conducted bia-annually.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with a
Security company insured in your name. 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. We hope with a part of
your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery. To
begin your claim, please you are to provide the below
details to this commission via email to MR ANTONIO
SALGADO, FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, MADRID
SPAIN,(*antonio_salgado9900@walla.com*<http://us.f336.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=antonio_salgado9900@walla.com&YY=55786&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=f>).
For due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice and to enable the
speedy evaluation and processing of your winnings. we
advice that you adhere strictly to procedures, to
avoid any disqualifications and subsequent cancelation
1. your full names
2. your full home / office address
3. direct telephone/fax numbers
4. occupation / age
5. next of kin
6. amount won
7. lottery date
the above detailed information will be absolutely
neccessary for the processing of your payment
cheques,drafts or wire transfers. Please note that
this winning is valid for THREE WEEKS and failure to
issue claims after this period will automatically void
your payment. Remember to quote your ticket number,
serial number and lucky number in your future
correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any
change of your address, do inform your claim agent as
soon as possible. Congratulations once again from all
our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotions program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Alexanderia Reyes

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

SORRY FOR THE LATE INFORMATION THANKS Mrs Alexanderia
Reyes PROMOTION MANAGER EUROPE ELGORDO PROMO LOTTERY
COMPANY MADRID
SPAIN-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


*********************************************PRIVATE&CONFIDENTIAL**************************************
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are from Europe Elgordo Lottery Company and are
confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are
not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction,
copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use
of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you
have received this transmission in error please
notify the sender immediately and then delete this
e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be
secure or error free as information can be
intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late
or incomplete, or contain viruses. Europe Elgordo
Lottery Company therefore cannot be held liable for
any errors or omissions in the contents of this
message, which arise as a result of e-mail
transmission

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