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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: "MICROSOFT WINDOWSXPLIVEPROMOTION" <MIGRDN95V402@prodigy.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:04:15 -0800
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL HAS WON

FROM: MR.HERLEY PETERSON
E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
580 N. Tenth Street Sacramento, CA 85914
Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery
an Affiliate of Foundmoney International
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque
I.P.P Award Dept.
Amsterdam Netherland.

MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro -
Afro
Asian Sweepstake
Lottery International programs held on JANUARY ,
2007 in LONDON
ENGLAND.Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:
EAASL-130876
which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd
category.You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £500.000.00
(Five Hundred
Thousand
pounds sterling)

This is from a total cash prize of £8,000,000 ,shared
amongst the
first
ten(16) lucky winners in
this category.Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within
our europe booklet representative in LONDON , ENGLAND
as indicated in
your play
coupon.

In view of this, your £500.000.00 (Five Hundred
Thousand pounds
sterling) cheque would be released to you by our
fudiciary agent in
LONDON,ENGLAND.Our Fudiciary
agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release
of your check as soon as you contact him.
All participants were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites and
guestbooks through computer draw system and extracted
from over 100,000
individuals and companies.
This promotion takes place annually and it is
sponsored by Sultan of
Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft and his associates to
encourage the use
of internet and computers world wide.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning informations
confidential till your claims is processed and your
cheque delivered to
your nominated address through an approved delivering
officer appointed
specially for this program.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some
unscrupulous
elements. Please
be warned

Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European
booklet representative office in London. In view of
this, your
£500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand pounds sterling)
would be released
to you
by our affiliate bank in Europe. Our agent will
immediately commence
the
process to facilitate the release of your funds to
you
as soon as you
make contact with him.

To begin your claim please contact our licensed
and accredited
agent
assigned to you

MR KELVIN MAXWELL
EURO AFRO-ASIAN LOTTERY
Information and Payment Bureau:
1290 LONDON Representative Office.
Phone: +447024093922
Phone:+447024094424
E-mail:verification_processingunit2@yahoo.co.uk

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you
are to contact Mr
KELVIN MAXWELL with the followings details below:


VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7COMPANY NAME
8.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
9.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
10.STATE:
11.COUNTRY:
12.AMOUNT WON:

2. quote your Ticket number in any correspondences
with us or our
designated
agent.Winners under 18 years of age will be
authomatically
disqualified.
Congratulations, once more from all members and
staffs
of this
program.Thank you for being part of this promotional
lottery program.
Our
special thanks and gratitude to Sultan of Brunei,
Bill
Gates of
microsoft
and all his associates.
Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of

confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end
of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be
further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to
circumvent problems associated with fraudulent
claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program. Any lottery double claim dedected by our
monitoring committee will lead to the Euro - Afro
Asian Sweepstake
lottery cacelling the winnings. making a loss for
both the real winner, and the fake (intended)
claimer.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CONTACT YOUR FIDUCIARY
AGENT DIRECTLY.

Sincerely,
FROM: MR.HERLEY PETERSON
EURO AFRO-ASIAN ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR



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