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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: "SURF LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL" <jviz.agentakr@yahoo.no>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:10:34 -0200
Subject: CALL FOR CONFIRMATION!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE INTERNET USER LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

Dear Internet User,

YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR USING THE INTERNET.

I am pleased to inform you that one of the best things that can happen to any Internet user is to be rewarded for spending money
and time on the Internet. You may not have known that over one hundred billion people daily surf the Internet on regular basis for
one reason or other. These Internet users including yourself, pay access fees to various Internet Service Providers (ISP) all
over the word who in turn remit surfplus funds to the numerous World Wide Internet Technology Companies (WWITC) for the
development and advancement of Global Information Technology.

So much money is generated from people like you all over the World for using the Information Superhighway (the Internet)
without your being aware the enormous sum that go to the stake holders (WWWITC).
Without your patronage, this would not have been possible. After we conducted a research
on the issue, we concluded that Internet users should be compensated. As a result, we embarked on a worldwide lottery promotion
with a sophisticated automated database to randomly select E-mail accounts that frequently surf the Internet. Consequent
upon this, your E-mail address was picked for Category “A” Winners.

After the automated computer ballot, your E-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following numbers
attached Ref Number: PW EH 9590 OG 0612,Batch Number: PA 563881545-NL/2007

You and other category “A” winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
($2,5000,000.00) respectively from the total payout of One Billion US Dollars earmarked in the lottery for category “A” winners.
Your prize award has been insured with your E-mail address, which qualified you for the lottery and will be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory proof of E-mail address
ownership.

To file in for the processing of your money, you are advised to contact our certified and accredited claims agent for category "A"
winners with the information below:

CLAIMS AGENT.
Mr. Jacob Viz.
Phone: +316-176-39272
Fax: +318-471-81615
Email: jviz.claims@yahoo.no

You will provide him with the following information:

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be forfeited after a trio repeated
forwarding of this message to you without your response. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
(Ref No: PW EH 9590 OG 0612, Batch No: PA 563881545-NL/2007),

You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference numbers and the password of your E-mail
address. Since we do not know you, if an impostor hacks your E-mail account ID and claims your money without our knowledge, we
shall not be liable. Double claims will not be entertained so be careful. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations! Thank you for being a user of the World Wide Web.


Yours Faithfully,
Yours
Faithfully,
Marry Jones
Lottery Coordinator.
Thank you and
congratulations!!!

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