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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "vivian ego" <vivianego17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: asiaelectrolotto@wanadoo.es
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:38:58 +0000
Subject: Congratulation!!! call as soon as you recieve this message.

FROM:Mrs Vivian Ego.
Lottery Headquarters
Customer service
Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery
an Affiliate of Foundmoney International
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque
I. P. P Award Dept.
Amsterdam Holland.

                     WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

Dear Lucky Winner,

ASIA ELEKTRONIK LOTTO PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
we are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of A ASIA Lotto International programs.
The on line cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies 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 two winners in the category "A" with the following:

Ref Number: PC 9590 AS 9414
Batch Number: 573881545-LNG/2005
Ticket Number: PCP 3502 /8707


You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize
of 2,500,000.00. (TWO MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each
from the total payout. 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 report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised
to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"
winners with the information below:

Dr Hans Williams
Asia Remittance Department Director,
Telephone: 0062-81317617590
E-mail:
contactasialotto@yahoo.com
contactasialotto@wanadoo.es

You are advised to provide him with the following information’s as he will
get back to you with information on how you will redeem your winning.:

Names and address in full:
Phone/Fax number & Occupation:
Nationality & Age :
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Ticket Number:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 9 days. Thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember
to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims
will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically
not allowed to participate in this program.
Congratulations, once more from all members and staffs of this
program.
Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. our  special thanks and gratitude to sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of  Microsoft and all his associates

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Vivian Ego
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Lotto International ASIA
www.lotto.as
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transmission in error, please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the material from your computer


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