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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: "award draw" <drawaward@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:09:23 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

FROM: LUCKY DAY LOTTERY NOVEMBER RESULT
BURDENSTRAAT 22 1053 DS
AMERFORTS(THE NETHERLANDS)
http://www.luckyday.nl.

(Customer Services)
Seria:90-77
Ticket:369-555-876/6181-22
Lucky No:29,41,20,39,48,44(01)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE WARD
DEPT.
WINNING NOTIFICATION
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
WINNING NOTIFICATION
Congratulation you have been selected as one of the draw winner of the Bono
Lottery International Program held on the 26th DECEMBER 2005 and results
were officially announced today 2nd JANUARY 2006. Your name "email
address" was attached to ticket number; 369-555-876/6181-22, Serial number
90-77 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 29,41,20,39,48,44(01)
bonus number 5, which consequently won the lottery in! the second
category.You hereby have been approved lump sum pay of 1,000,000.00 UNITED
STATE DOLLARS (0NE MILLION DOLLARS) file Seria:90-77 from the total cash
prize of 2 MILLION DOLLARS shared amongst ten lucky winners based on their
category.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer balloting
system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,Australia,United
States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies as
including Bill Gate, and some other EU governmental personalities part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they
have operational base. To process your claims you are hereby advice to
contact the The promotions Manager with this information:

MR Raymond Van Jansen
LUCKY DAY LOTTERY PROMOTIONS NL
Email:kingassurancebv@netscape.net
Tel:+31626242711

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
program by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Also you are advice to
make your legalization not less than a month from the day you received this
notification.
NOT: you are to froward your winning information to th promotion manager for
verification, eg Ticket no, Seria no,Lucky no ect


Best Regards
MARIA STEPHENS
Co-coordinator
LUCKY DAY LOTTERY PROMOTIONS NL.
Open 7 days 7am-7pm.


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