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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: accunl@accunl0.orangehome.co.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:11:03 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: CONFIRMATION FOR YOUR EMAIL WINNING NUMBER AC/REF4121100.


CONFIRMATION FOR YOUR EMAIL WINNING NUMBER AC/REF4121100.
Dear Winner:
We wish to inform you of the Yearly sweepstakes program that your Email
Address has won an Award sum of (US$ 1,500,000.00) One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
only from ACCUL LOTTO. NL sponsored by the MICROSOFT EXPLORATION to
encourage internet users. Please contact your claims officer below for your
Claim:
*****************************************************
Name: Dr. Dennis Schafer
Email: acculot@aim.com
Tel:+31 616 937 883
Fax: +31-84-737-2956
******************************************************
You are also advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
WINNING INFORMATIONS:
Ref Number: AC/REF4121100, Ticket Number:ACL 2315620015478, serial
Number AC45GM457825, Lucky Numbers: 57-23-56-10-02-57, Batch Number:
ACL/2986542754/TM, Lottery Date:30/03/07.
The email lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
980,000.000 e-mail addresses of individual, companies, and corporate bodies
Picked by an advanced automated random computer search ballot system from
The Internet.
Once again congratulations!
Yours Sincerely,
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Morgan Williams
For Claims Manager
Website:www.acculotto.com

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