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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: info Mailer <info@ero2.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:29:55 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Euro Award Notification


Euro Award Notification
European Award Winning Prize.
Euro Millones Lottery Board
CALLE ANGEL MARIO 23
P.C 28003 Madrid-Spain.
Dear winner,
We wish to inform you that you have been approved as one of the lucky winner winners in the Euro Millones Lottery International Email Address draw on the 30th of September, 2006. All 5 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged alongside 4 others as a category 2 winner in the Euro Millones Lottery Draw.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.
Your email ID identified with Coupon No. EEPP/001324625 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
You have won a consolation cash prize of US$787,000:00 (Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand United States Dollars Only). The EUROPEAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM Group have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.
We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting sweepstake 30th September 2006. This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. You have been approving for the star priz e of US $787:000:00 (Seven Hundred And Eighty Seven Thousand United State Dollars Only).
Batch No: WNTO/7416/VA/ES
Ticket No: TWMT/1800/806
Lucky No: 07-13-31.54-64
Ref No: ETM/4378/WWC
Serial No: CNMMM/67000/MMC
To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
DR.ROBERT WOOD.
ASOLACE AGENCI
P.C.28005 MADRID-SPAIN.
E-mail: asolaceagenci@aim.com
The appointed agent will be required to Notarize all your award winning documents in the Madrid Municipal Court and also obtain Approval Legal Clearance Certificate from the Court here in Spain which is in accordance with the European Union Lottery Act 2004 on payment of International Lottery Winners. Be inform that the PAYING BANK will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.
Once again congratulations!!!.
Best Regards,
Anita Raynes(Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)

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