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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: lucky day lottery <winners@luckyday.nl>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:13:49 +0200
Subject: winner

LUCKYDAY LOTTO
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
yesterday the 13th 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 2 Winners
in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of (one
million EUROS) only. The
following particulars
Are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL23112
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/5237900/NL

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:

Mr.Alphonso ketter
Complete Solutions Ltd
Tel-0031 617 594 984
Email- alphonsoketter@netscape.net


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,
Lucy White
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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