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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: lffqEUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL <pginfofunds@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 04:11:37 +0200
Subject: Best Regard axjg

EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
WINNERS/PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION.
AVENUE DE TERVUEREN 35/37 B-1040 BRUXELLES.

ATTENTION: Sir/Madam

RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION:FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 1st of may 2006, of winners of the
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY held on 25th march 2006 in AVENUE DE
TERVUEREN 35/37 B-1040 BRUXELLES, Your email address was attached to ticket number 27-63,
with serial number 52-32-30-00 drew with lucky numbers 39-01-79, and consequently you won the lottery
in the 3RD category with Pin number (0009787740078446678AAA) You have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay out of £1,500,000.00 (One million, five hundred thousand British Pounds Sterling) in
cash credited to file REF NO: EPLBZWGG16. This is from total Prize money of £15,000,000.00 shared
among the ten International winners in this category.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through a computer drawn balloting
system and from over 75,000 companies/ individuals as part of our International Promotions Program,
which is conducted annually. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our America,
Australia, Asia, North America, New Zealand, Middle East and European booklet representative office in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £1,500,000.00 British Pounds Sterling will
be released to you by our preferred payment center in Europe London or the united state.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the Release of your funds as soon as you
contact them. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your
claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claims please contact our financial agent with your details as required below this message;

Name: Mr.Martins fenton
International Remmittance/Credit unit
Facility Management Region
(Citi Finance and Securities)
Amsterdam-Netherlands.
TEL: +00-31-651-672-054
FAX: +00-31-847-290-451
Email:citifinancees@netscape.net

For due processing and remittance of your Prize, do remember to quote your Reference numbers, serial
number and ticket numbers in every correspondences with our agent. Remember, all Prizes must be
claimed not later than 24th June 2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Note:
Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Furthermore, should there be any Change of your address; do inform your claims agent as soon as
possible.

Congratulations!! Again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely.

Mrs. Marie Thompson
Zonal Co-coordinator
EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY
(Promotions Manager)

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