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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: "brown" <brown_4@myway.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:18:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION






MERCED-BENZ-PROMOTIONEPPENDORFER-WEG 1,20259 HAMBURG.GERMANY,Dear Winner,The Local Organising Committee of the European word cup is gladto announce to the world the giving away of a new brown mercedes benzB-KLASS - MERCEDES BENZ WORTH - 35,000€ EUROSIF YOU WILL LIKE TO HAVE 35,000€ EUROs in cash10,000,lucky email addresses all over the world were seleted, is the Appreciation of our International Support for the past SoccerEvents and the correspondent earnings at the stock market which was farbeyond our projected quarterly earnings.Be informed that all winners inthis program have been selected randomly through a computer ballotsystem drawn from over 1,500,000 companies and individual e-mailaddresses database. Your email address happened to be one of the luckywinner OF THIS MERCEDES-BENZ-B-KLASS OR ALTARNATIVLY THE 35,000€EUROS among the 10,000, email- addresses seleted,addressess chosen. In other to claim your prize, you will have to fillthe form below and send it back to us
for verification andthen you will be inform on how your Cashier's Check or your wininig-BENZ-B-KLASS - WILL BE DELIVERD,Ref:file Nº: 00GC10/06opportunity to thank all our Sponsors/Contributors of this program: AIREMIRATES,ADIDAS,NIKE,MCDONALDS,COCA-COLA,UNITEDAIRLINES,BMW,PEPSI,VIRGIN ,MERCEDES-BENZ,ATLANTIC,UMBRO-SPORTLINE,FUJIFILM, AIR-ASIA,BARCLAYS,VODAFONE, NOKIA,SERIES, LUCOZADE SPORT, AND A HOST OF EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS FORALLOWING THE USEOF THEIR DATABASE FOR THE DRAWS AND ALSO FOR THE PROVISION OF SECURE(SSL) EMAIL DELIVERY
SYSTEMS.NAME:............................................................AGE:.............................................................SEX:.............................................................ADDRESS:.........................................................EMAIL:...........................................................TEL.:............................................................OCCUPATION:......................................................COUNTRY:.........................................................I WILL LIKE TO HAVE THE CAR......................................I WILL LIKE THE HAVE THE 35,000€EUROS, in cash...................This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intendedfor the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed andmay contain Information thatis privileged,proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure. Ifyou are not the intended recipient, you are notified that anydissemination,distribution or copying of
this communication is strictlyprohibited. PLease Note That all response Should be sentnuman_agency@myway.com CONTACT YOUR CLAIM-AGENT,MR,THOMAS - VOSSHUMAN SECURITY AGENCY,TEL+0034-697-983-323FAX+0034- 917-109-294Email:numan_agency@myway.com Once again congratulations from all our members and staff of MERCEDES-BENZ- Sponsors,Best regards,Raymond-Wolfgang Promotion Director.


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