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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: "vanmongan@aim.com" <vanmongan@aim.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 01:53:19 -0400
Subject: YOUR LUCKY DAY




REF.No: LHTE/EU/1570/60654/003
BACTH No: LHTE/EU/1599/66788
DRAW No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-17
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-19

We are pleased to inform you that your e-mail address has won the
staatsloterij $650.000.00 USD Dollars. (SIX Hundred And Fifty Thousand
United State Dollar). Program held on 7th
may 2007, released today 14th may, 2007.

All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged
alongside 9 others as a category 'A' winner
in the staatsloterij Lottery Draw.

To begin your claim please contact assigned Agent to you by e-mail:

Raymond van morgan
(Claim Processing Department)
Tel:+ 31 620 898 165
E-mail: vanmongan@aim.com

Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer and contact the appointed agent with your Full Names,
Contact Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number
and also Fax Number) via e-mail to process the immediate payment of your
prize.

Once again on behalf of all our staffs,
CONGRATULATIONS!

Yours Sincerely,

MRS, REBECCA SMITH.
(Loterij Promotions Coordinator)
www.staatsloterij.nl is een onderdeel van De Loterij Copyright-(c)2007
staatsloterij N.V. De Nederland's


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