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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: Mrs Vivian Jones <carolynnlosa@prodigy.net.mx>
Reply-To: mr_chrisjohnson13@yahoo.de
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:07:08 -0500
Subject: CATEGORY "A" WINNER



FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR:
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

ATTENTION!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual
draw of our LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL Programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate
institutions,picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet.No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached
Reference Number: GP 14--246-04,Batch Number: 573881545-UK/2006 and
Ticket Number: PP3502 /8707-01.

You are therefore to receive a star prize of One Million Three Hundred
and Twenty-four Thousand,Three Hundred and Sixty-five Great British
Pounds (GB??1,324,365.00) which amount a cash payout of Two Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars( $2,500,000.00.)from the
total payout.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your prize award has been insured to your e-mail address with the
highest level of Insurance policy called the IRREVOCABLE GUARANTEE OF
PAYMENT BOND.Your cash prize will be transferred to you upon meeting
our requirements,statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised
to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for
category "A"winners with the information below:
************************************************
Name: Mr Chris Johnson
Tel: +31-61-767-9784
Fax: +31 84 725 7541
Email:mr_chrisjohnson13@yahoo.de
************************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14
days;thereafterunclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.You
are to keep all lottery information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket
numbers.

(This is important as a case of double claim will not be
tolerated).Members of affiliated agencies are PROHIBITED from
participating in this program.Further more, should there be any change
of address, do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our Promotional Program
Regards,
Vivian Jones.
Lottery Coordinator.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

This email may contain information which is confidential and/or
privileged. The information is intended solely for the use of the
individual or entity with this email address.If you are not the
intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying,
distributionor use of the contents is prohibited. If you have
received this electronictransmission in error,please notify the
sender by telephone or returnemail and delete the material from your
computer.

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