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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: "LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES PROMOTIOM" <claimofficer004@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:07:34 +0000
Subject: CONGARTULATIONS: WINNING NOTICE!!

FROM:
LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER
RE: AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING
 
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
This email confirms you have been notified by LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES of Netherlands, of your email lottery winning for 2006 , held on Jan 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email Ref number which was selected among the 45 Lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with REF Number: 35149/337-5247/LMO was selected by Electronic Random selection System (ERSS) with entries from  50,000  different email addresses . Your email ID which was among the 50,000  email addresses was submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LMO
Batch Number: 2637/2312-LNI/2006
Ticket Number: 967666233
Lucky Amount: 1,500, 000.00(0ne million five hundred thousand Euros only)

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the lottery claims Processing Officer with your winning information provided above.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Peter Van Smith
Email:lotto234@gawab.com
Fax:31-847-520-740

Congratulations Once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES.

Yours truly,

Mrs.Mavis Cook
(Lottery Coordinator)

All response should be mail to:-lotto234@gawab.com
 
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