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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: "sink juliana" <the_winners02@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:45:48 +0000
Subject: FOR SILVER STAKE WINNERS

FROM: PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL PROMO BV,

WINNING  NOTICE
FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER - Ref. No.- IP/04/652659966/BV

Attention:

The International Promotions has just concluded its final draws  of it's periodical promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet.

No tickets were sold.Your email address emerged as one of seven winners in the silver stakes category as email addresses were soughted,from a total number of 25,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe.

After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only SEVEN winners emerged in this category and therefore each are to receive payouts of 516,000,00 from the total of 3,612,000.00

(THREE  MILLION  SIX HUNDRED AND TWELVE THOUSAND EUROS).

However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and  ticket number,after the cyber lotto selection,the below ticket and reference numbers emereged as one of the lucky winners in the above

category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.- IP/04/652659966/BV
Ticket No.- IP87866BV

For confirmation of the claim of your prize money,you are to send an email to our customer service representative with informations below for further instructions on how you can claim your prize:

Robert Niels
Customer Service Representative
International Promotions BV,
email:robertneils@katamail.com
cc:robert_neils@uk2.net
contact: +447031944536

You may be required to provide any of the above information
during the process of collecting your prize.

We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you  participate in any of our nternational programs in the nearest future.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Sincerely,
Julia Sink,
Promotions Manager
International Promo BV
sinkjulia@internationalpromo.com

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