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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: "euroaward1@terra.es" <euroaward1@terra.es>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:20:57 +0100 (MET)
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION.



EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY AWARD,LONDON ZONE
100 LINCOLNS INN FIELDS,HOLBORN, LONDON,WC2A 3JX,
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT. MULTIMEDIA PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD..REFERENCE NO- EMLW/200-100/400
BATCH NO- 888--999--222.

ATTENTION: AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you of the release of the EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY
AWARD held on the 31th of jan 2007. The results were released on the
1st of feb 2007.Your email address was attached to ticket number
543-908-321-675 with serial number 842-790-241-671 that drew the lucky
numbers of 60-32-90-43-32, which consequently won the lottery in the
1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum of payment of Euros
5,000.000.00(ONE MILLION EURO)only in cash. credited to file with
REFERENCE NO- EMLW/413--905/644. This is from US,100,000.000.00
(TWENTYMILLION EURO) in cash among the 20 participating finalist
playing 6,000 full tickets.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund is now deposited with our Security Company and insured in
your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you
keep this award from public notice untill your claims has been
processed and the money remitted to your account as this is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming of unwarranted taking
advantage of this program by participants as it has happened in the past.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 25,000 names from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and
South America, Middle East and Africa .This programme is sponsored
byEUROPEAN UNIONS/BILL GATES and WORLD INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
ORGANISATION TO PROMOTE and ENAHNCE the use of SOFT WARE IN THE GOBAL WORLD.
We hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash prize in the
subsequent programs. To begin your lottery claims , please contact your
processing manager. DR PAUL WILLIAMS.

AND his e-mail address is euromultimediaaward@o2.pl,and You are hereby
advice to send all your information to the processing manager provided that
you are the user of this mail. Remember, all prize money must be claimed
not later than two weeks from the day you receive this notification.
Any claim not made before this date will be returned to the EUROPEAN
UNION MINISTRY OF FINANCE of such country. And also be informed that 1%
of your lottery winning belongs to your agent because they are the
company that bought your ticket and played the lottery on your name.
NOTE this 1% will be remitted.AFTER you have received your winnings
prize because the money is insured in your name already.
Remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondence with our processing manager.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform
your processing manager as soon as possible.
once you get intouch with your processing manager,A form will be
giveing to you to fill by your processing manager.
and this also, will enable him access your claim for you immediately.
Once again, from all members of our staff. and thank you for being a
part of our EURO MULTIMEDIA LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM.

we wish you continued good fortunes

Sincerely,
DR PAUL WILLIAMS.
PROMOTION MANAGER





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