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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: dv.usvisadept@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:13:23 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?U=2ES=2E=20Department=20of=20State=2E?=

Attention, Dear Congratulation.

Applicants registered for the DV-2007 program were selected at random from
over 5.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application
period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 5, 2006, until midnight,December4,2006.
The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum
of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.

During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a
high school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience
in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience
within the past five years. Those selected will need to act on their immigrant
visa applications quickly. Applicants should follow the instructions in
their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested.

Registrants living legally in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment
of their status must contact the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *50,000
visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2007 will end.

Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2007 will
derive no further benefit from their DV-2007 registration. Similarly, spouses
and children accompanying or following to join DV-2007 principal applicant
s are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September
30,2007.

Only participants in the DV-2007 program who were selected for further processing
have been notified. Those who have not received notification were not selected.

They may try for the upcoming DV-2008 lottery if they wish. The dates for
the registration period for the DV-2008 lottery program will be widely publicized
during August 2008.

Your winning has been confirmed.Please submit the required information to
begin processing your visa, submit to your visa consular officer via this
email address:[usvisaconsularaffairs@oued.org] for quick processing.scan
and send color passport photo,your contact address, your tel number,your
occupation current,previous and postal address to send your parcel.

Please note that as soon as your information is submitted to our office
it will be processed and send via postal services to your local united states
embassy in your area to notify you for interview.

Meanwhile you are to contact our African trusted visa consultant for he
is the U.S official approved institution to carry out all visa transaction
in African on the hole,since you are from Africa we are connecting you to
our visa consultant for faster preprocessing

NOTE:You are to pay the sum of $300 for processing (OFFICIAL) breach of
this will lid to disqualify Contact him now African visa consultant Email
Address:[afvisaconsaltant@yahoo.com].


Thank You
Mrs. Mary Matters.

U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs.





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