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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: <payoffice06@ny.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:18:00 -0500
Subject: LUCKTSTAR E-GAMES PROMO:WINNING NOTIFICATION...CONGRATULATIONS!

     de     n      e      t       h       e       r       l       a         n         d         s
                                   http://ambientenergytech.com/        LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES   http://ambientenergytech.com/

Daalwijk 813, Amsterdam 1102 AA, Netherlands

Tel: +31-613-795-118 Fax: +31-847-520-740

DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES

      Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

 

NOTIFICATION OF  PRIZE WINNING


This email confirms that you have been notified of by  DE LUCKYSTAR E-GAMES LOTTERY BY DE Netherlands your email lottery winning for 2006 LUCKYSTAR LOTTERY - Wheel E-game held on Monday 10TH July 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 Lottery-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 GroupPrize 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 within 14 working days.

  Email:claimsdivision11@netscape.net
Fax: 31-20-524-8084

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

Regards,
Mr.Van Lackof
(Lottery Coordinator)

 

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