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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: "vandijk006@yahoo.com" <vandijk006@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:46:43 -0700
Subject: ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD!!!

DE GOLDSTAR E-GAMES


ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION:


Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the DE GOLDSTAR
E-GAMES LOTTO BV DE
Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006 GOLDSTAR LOTTO - Wheel
E-game held on
23rd April 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.NL132478 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.

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: 1.500,000 One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro 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: Mr. Smith Van Dijk
Email: director033@netscape.net
Tel: +31-644-911-683
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 DE GOLDSTAR E-GAMES.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Sara Borsch
(Lottery Coordinator)

NB: All response should be mail to: director033@netscape.net

SPONSORS
MICROSOFT GOLDSTAR E-GAMES CO-OPERATIONS NL, MICROSOFT CO-OPERATIONS ASIA,
MICROSOFT CO-OPERATIONS NETHERLANDS, CITIPAKCOURIR AND PORTLANDCOURIER.







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