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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "POWER BALL LOTTO. BV" <powerball05@tiscali.it>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:56:49 -0300
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE WON!!!

POWER BALL LOTTO. BV
POWER BALL-WHEEL E-GAME 2006

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the POWERBALL INTER
LOTTO BV The
Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006 Powerball Lotto - Wheel
E-game held on 1st of
january 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number
which was selected among
the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with
Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and
was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from
the 50,000 different email
addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among
the 50,000 different email
addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider
companies.

Prize Ref No.: PBL/UK/84733/NL
Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: 2,800,000 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 below.

Lottery Claims Officer:
Name: Mr. Koopman Duke
Email: dkoopman637@netscape.net
powerball637@yahoo.com
Tel: +31 629 248 546.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning, we hope you will
partake in our forth coming Powerball Lotto-Wheel Email-games.

Yours truly,
Mrs.Yoost van Peterson,
(Lottery Coordinator)


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