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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: <eurolotto2006@nonomail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:21:41 +0200
Subject: EMAIL ONLINE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION, (Contact claim agent for your prize claim).


Message-ID: <641c9acf2e5502f24f0d627230eb9ed2@localhost>
X-Sender: eurolotto2006@nonomail.com
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-20051021
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


EMAIL ONLINE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION, (Contact claim agent for your prize claim).

LA PRIMITIVA ESPAÑOL
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT,
Guzman El Bueno137, 28003
Madrid, España.

REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.
BATCH Nº: ES-0006997-EU.

INTERNATIONAL WINNING NOTIFICATION/EASTER RESULT.

The Spanish Lottery board wishes to inform the beneficiary to this email address the results of the email address ballot lottery international program held on 15th of April. 2006. Your email account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of EURO € 502,185 (FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE EUROS) in cash credited to file REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000 names database, union
associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is this year Spanish Easter Bonanza International Lottery Program of LA PRIMITIVA ESPAÑOL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.

Note that in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, always remember to quote your reference numbers in all correspondence with your claim agent. Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by people you might disclose your winning information to, any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
Winners will result to disqualification, so be warn !!!.


To file your claim, please contact our registered affiliated claims agent:

SEGURVAL AGENCIA DE SEGURIDAD S.A.
Plaza De Toledo, 014 Pta 65
28006, Madrid.
España.
E.mail: infosegurval@netscape.net

Note below your winning details for verification and processing of your winning prize.

REF Nº: ES-0415-2006/MAD.
BATCH Nº: ES-0006997-EU.
Lucky Nº: 2-10-26-40-45.
Ticket Nº: A46709.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Best regards,

Mr. Jose Fernando Molina
Online Coordinator.





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