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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: maurrine16@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:37:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: RE: UNCLAIMED PRIZE FROM BMW GOLDEN JUBILEE AWARD 2006!!


RE: UNCLAIMED PRIZE FROM BMW GOLDEN JUBILEE AWARD 2006!!

ROTARESA WEG 100-104
AMSTERDAM .
THE NETHERLANDS
www.staatsloterij.nl
WINNER NO 4

REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L BATCH: 4583JL/WIN
We the BMW/STAATSLOTERIJ/ MSN MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE wish to
inform you that your Lottery winning of US$1.000.000 which you won in
BMW GOLDEN JUBILEE 2006 has been returned to our Treasury by our Lotto claims
agent as unclaimed prize after their initial letter to your email address for your award claim but was
not successful.

BMW/STAATSLOTERIJ/MSN/MICROSOFT PROMOTION AWARD PROGRAMM CONDUCTED IN
NETHERLAND ON THE 24th OF DECEMBER 2006.
Your E-mail address is attached to WINNER NO4, with serial
number:7741137002 and drew the lucky numbers : 23-76-06-54-42-100,
Batch No:
4583JL/WIN which consequently won in the 3rd lottery category. You
have therefore been approved for lump sums pay of US$1.000.000.00 ( One
Million Dollars) in cash, Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L
This is from the total prize money of 8, 800,000.00 Dollars which is
to be shared among the lucky international winners in categories C.
All participants in this program were selected randomly through our
MSN/MICROSOFT Computer Ballot System, drawn from 85.000.000 internet
users from all search engines.Your e-mail address was picked by the
automated MSN/MICROSOFT Computer Ballot System, which has been
programed for this random selection.
This has eventually qualified you for the Winning.This promotional
program was promoted and sponsored by BMW NNETHERLAND/STAATSLOTERIJ
/MSN/MICROSOFT Companies ,with the support of European corporate
companies and organizations to mark BMW50th year Golden Jubilee in Netherland and
to encourage the use of Internet and computers worldwide .
No Ticket were sold for these Lottery award.

Your award funds have been return back to our treasury and we write to
officially give you the last chance to claim your award.
So we write to officially give you the last chance to claim your award.
we advise you to contact Dr Edger Moore of the Claim Department
immediately upon receipt of this message for more information
concerning the verification processing and payment of the above prize to you.

You are to keep your ref. number and batch number from the public,
until you have received your cash prize . This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of scamming /hacking
people of their ref number and prizes.
You are advised to contact our Prize Processing Officer by means of
email or phone to the below contact info within the hour of reading
this winning notification.
*****************************************************************************************
Mr. Edger Moore
Office Of The Prize Payment Authority
Prize Processing Officer
MSN-Award Lottery Promotion.
Email: infoclaimdepartment@aol.nl Email:infoclaimdepartment@zensearch.com
Email: Tel:+31-616-971-499 Fax: +31-847-149- 577
*****************************************************************************************


When you contact him for payment(EDGER MOORE) furninsh him with the
following details for the issue of your WINNING CERTIFICATE:
(1)Full Name(2) Country (3)Date Of Birth(4) Occupation (5) Home/Moblie
Phone (5) Your International passport or driving licence identity to
aviod impersonation.
Note that all prize money must be claimed not later than 8th June .
All funds not Claimed on or before the 22nd June 2007 will be returned
as Unclaimed Prize and donated to The Charity and please be aware that
our Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory
Report,Verifications and validation provided by our prize processing
officer.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all
correspondences
with our payment officer.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staffs of
MSN/MICROSOFT COMPANY to all our lucky winners of the year 2006.

Sincerely yours,
Maurrine Diane

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