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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: "FORTUNA TRUST SEGURIDAD S.A" <info.bono@mail2web.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:42:04 +0200
Subject: REBONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING


UMMERSET INTERNATIONAL LOTTO S.A
FROM:GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
CALLE ANTONIO 4B 12001,MADRID-SPAIN.
TELL:+34 636 943 124
FAX: +34 940 467 585
Email:info-summerset@myway.com

FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTORINTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

REF/EG/JK67542/06
BATCH/6546235/GAFK

RE:BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded final draws of SUMMERSET INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY AWARD held on the 29th January, 2006. The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet in
appreciation of our annual summer visitors to Spain.
No tickets were sold.

Your name attached to the ticket number
0115-16-4784-992-790 with serial number 2093-0009 drew
the lucky numbers 1274-16-411--3764-390 which
consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail
address emerged as one of two winners in the category
"B" with the following:You as well as the other winner
are therefore to receive a cash prize of €1,800,809:00
( One Million, Eight Hundred Thousand, Eight Hundred
And Nine Euros Only) each from the total payout
prize.Your prize awards has been insured with your
e-mail address pending when your full names and
address will be known to us, and thereafter,your
winning fund will be transferred to you upon meeting
our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report

To begin your claim, please contact below your claim
agent the foreign service manager of FORTUNA TRUST
SEGURIDAD S.A
TEL: +34 675 165 960
FAX: +34 940 468 827
Email:admin-fortunatrust@excite.com
CONTACT PERSON: Sr. Oscar Pedro Gomez

And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning
belongs to (IBERO PROMOTION COMPANY S,A) Because they
are the company that bought your ticket and played the
lottery on your name, NOTE this 10% will be remitted
after you have received your winnings prize because
the money is insured in your name already. This
lottery was promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates,
President of Microsoft, the world's largest software
company in order to enhance and promote the use of
Internet Explorer Users and Microsoft-wares around the
globe. This promotional program takes place every
three years. We hope with part of your winning you
will take part in our end of year 50 million Euro
International lottery

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than the
28th April, 2006. After this date, all unclaimed funds
will be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondences. You
are to keep all lottery informations away from the
general public especially your reference and ticket
numbers. This is important as a case of double claims
will not be entertained.

Congratulations on be half of our managements.

Raul Jose Meñdez.
INTL.LOTTO COMMISSION

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