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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: "angela david" <dnldx36@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:40:33 +0200
Subject: YOU HAVE WON. (CONTACT CITI FINANCE)

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of De Lotto Netherlands International Lottery programs. 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. No tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
two winners in the category "B" with the following:
Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Batch Number:29371343-LNI/2006
Ticket Number:54866233
You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$500,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ONLY) each from the total payout.
Your prize awards has been insured with your e-mail address and will be
transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims
processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed
and accredited claims agent for category "B" winners with the informatiom
below:
Mr.Marco Van Weert,
Citi Finance & Securities B.V
Assendelftstraat 19,
1102 BJ, Amsterdam-The Netherlands
Phone: +31649977986
E-mail: citifinance1@netscape.net
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto
information away from the public i.e your reference and ticket numbers.
(This is important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained).Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate
agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Thank
you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Angela David,
Games/Lottery Coordinator.

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