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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: "Luckyday Lotto" <luckydaynl0001@yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:19:38 -0800
Subject: Award Notification

LUCKYDAY LOTTERY
1102 VAN DER TRAAT
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
www.luckyday.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
luckyday Lotto draw held on the 3rd of July 2006.All 10 winning
Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category A Winners in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
(FOUR million Five hundred thousands dollars) only.
The following particulars Are attached to your
lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: PP 3502 /8707-01
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: 573881545-NL/2006
(iv) The file Ref number: PW 9590 ES 9414

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email and/or phone as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings and also
send him the information requested below:

QUAD CRUISE NL
Name: Paul Martel
Phone:+31 644 893 520
Email:paulmartel3@aim.com
Email:paulmartel@walla.com


1. NAME IN FULL:........................
2. ADDRESS:.............................
3. NATIONALITY:.........................
4. AGE:.................................
5. OCCUPATION:..........................
6. PHONE/FAX:...........................
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE..................



N.B:

Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.


Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed
to avert

incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on behalf
of all our
staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Walter Jones
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company

The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel

Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of other
international IT
companies.

The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized
to encourage the

use of The Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
200
Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

We also encourage you to visit our website at www.luckyday.nl and Take your
chance to play

and become part of our annual winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis
on one of the

world's most famous lotto Service.

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