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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: "lottpromosp@terra.es" <lottpromosp@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:45:59 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION, PLS CONTACT THE AGENT!!!.


LOTTERY PROMOTION
MADRID SPAIN
FROM:THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF NO/ASI/35083100/ELC/07
BATCH NO: 8824-43
AWARD NOTIFICATION
Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the 29th MARCH ,2007 SPAIN LOTTERY Primitiva Promotion, your e-mail address was among the 20 Lucky winners However the results were released on the 30th April, 2007 and your e-mail was attached to ticket number (E44-14-357-099)
with serial number 8824-43 drew the lucky numbers 2 16 38 22 45 which
consequently won the lottery. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 815,610.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS ONLY) in cash credited to file with REF NO/ASI/35083100/ELC/07 This is from a total cash prize of 10,468,770 (TEN MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EUROS ONLY) Shared among 17 (Seventeen) international winners in this category.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of e-mail addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all e-mail addresses were assigned
to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized e-mail selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 980,000 e-mail addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
This Promotion is approved by the spanish Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).
This Promotion is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public to encourage tourism in our country. To begin your claim, please contact your claims agent DR ALONSO JUAN, on TEL:+ 34-634193264, EMAIL: consultaflonsojuan@yahoo.es for processing and remittance of your winning prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30 July 2007
However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to the
agent for verification
NAME:.....................................
AGE:.......................................
SEX:........................................
ADDRESS:...............................
E-MAIL:....................................
PHONE:...................................
OCCUPATION:.........................
COMPANY:..............................
COUNTRY:...............................
You are to keep all your promotion winning information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Yours faithfully,
sanchez gomez
PROMOTION CO-ORDINATOR





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