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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: "From Vodafone Online promo management board" <vodafoneonliine@vodafone.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: winners_services@sfax.ws
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:16:09 +0700
Subject: Please read this information well (Notification0

Vodafone Online Promo International.
ESV/LOTTO BAYARN In conjunction with the National Organizing committee of the 2006 FIFA World cup.,FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 Organisationskomitee Deutschland Koniginstrade 23,258969 Munchen. Thu 28-06-2007 02:57:01-pm

From; The Desk of the promotions Manager
Vodafon Fifa World Cup online-promo intl.Esv/Lotto bayern,
Customer service and Logistics Department.
https://www.lotto-bayern.de/

Reference N0: FL/668530092
Batch N0:452006/14/FIFA06/FL
Serial N0: VOD/FN/3347B
Winner's identification N0: BB-19

Dear winner,
We the entire board and management of Vodafone online-promo international conducted under LOTTO BAYERN in conjunction with the National organizing committee of the 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP wishes to congratulate you as one of the lucky selected winner of the Vodafone-FIFA online promo international held on the 28th of December 2006 in Munich ( Germany) in support of the FIFA organized World Cup.

Details.
This Vodafone promotion is organized by the host country and was conducted under LOTTO BAYERN in collaboration with Football world body”FIFA”The lottery promotion takes place every four (4) years of the FIFA organized competion in conjuction with the host country.

This is the 2nd edition of the lottery program and the total sum of US$50,000,000.00 (Fifty Million United States Dollars) were released in this edition which was shared among the (100) lucky selected winner's.

Funds for the draw were contributed by the major sponsors of the game which includes-Adidas-Hyundai-Fuji-Film-Mastercard-Gillette-CocaCola-Continental-Toshiba-McDonalds and a host of others.

However, no tickets were sold, the lottery program was being conducted through computer draw system of e-mail random extractions from world-wide registered websites,all extracted e-mail addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy for final selection through computer draw system.

6.3 million e-mail addresses were extracted from world wide registered web-sites during the 33-days extraction period that ran from 12.00 AM on NOVEMBER 20,2006 until midnight, DECEMBER,9 2006 for final selection.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 13 15 20 32 37 49 drew the lucky number's which subsequently won you the "CASH PRIZE" of $500,000.00USD (Five Hundred Thousand United-States-Dollars)

Your winners identification number is BB-19
Note that your winners identification number is your PIN-CODE to claim your prize.

Click here to view the lottery results which was published under all German Lotto results http://www.justlottery.com/all-results/Germany-Lotto.html

Notification is through e-mail and we are sending the winning notification directly through the selected winning email address which means that if you receive the winning notification in your mail box that you have been selected among the lucky winner's.

Approximately (80) selected lucky winners had been notified through their e-mail addresses including you today (Thu 28-06-2007)

Basic question.
How can I make the claim of my prize?
Your winning details falls within our Asia/pacific booklet representative office as indicated in the draw system,regarding that,your prize will be release to you by our paying bank in Asia and we have forwarded your winning details to our Asia/pacific agent to facilitate the immediate release of your prize through our paying bank in accordance with the prize release regulation.

TO MAKE THE CLAIM OF YOUR PRIZE,CONTACT OUR ASIA/PACIFIC AGENT VIA THE BELOW CONTACT DETAILS AND FORWARD THEM WITH YOUR WINNER'S IDENTIFICATION NUMBER.

Name: Mr. Fredrick Anderson.
Office address:Indra Tower,Suite105,75/6 Wireless Road Panthumwan Bangkok-Thailand.
Tel: +66-835-619-209 +66-843-578-622
Fax: +66-2251 9977
Email: vdffl@oued.info

Our agents has been apportioned among six geographic regions,all lucky selected winners may now contact our agents in all the designated regions for the immediate release of their prizes and will need to act on their claims application quickly before the expiration of the prize claim deadline which is on the (25th of July 2007)

ANY SELECTED LUCKY PERSON BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS.

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Monica Smith.
International relations officer.
_____________________________________________________________________
PRIVACY: This correspondence may contain confidential or legally privileged information or both. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission.

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