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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: "cyber lotteria" <cyberlotteria02@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:20:33 +0100
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY.

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
MICROSOFT
INCORPORATED NL, Laan van Hoornwijck 55, 2289
DG Rijswijk, The
Netherlands.
Nederland.

Attn Lucky Winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw
10TH-01-2006, of our International Lottery Programs. The online 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 ninternet.
No tickets were sold.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref Number:
MP1/2031/8161/04; Batch Number: R3/A312-59 and Ticket Number: 025/ 078742,
with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers 5-77-09. You are therefore
to receive a cash prize of $1,500,000.00. (One MillionFive Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) from the total payout, This is from the total prize
money of 18,900,000.00 US Dollars (Eighteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand
US Dollars) shared among the international winners in our 1st -
categories. CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

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 Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A" in Spain
as the European Payment Centre for this Category winners with the
information below:

**********************************************
Mr. PEPE GONZALEZ
Email:
pepe_gonzalez65@excite.com
TEL: +34-651-357-108.
FAX: +34-653-337-683

**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information to your agent
in Spain.

Names:
Telephone/Fax
number:
Nationality:
Age:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 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.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours
Faithfully,

Mrs. Ann van Bosch
Promotion Manager.
Thank you and
congratulations!!!



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