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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: Kevin Aronin <kevin_aronin@easymail.hu>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:28:43 +0200
Subject: Winner!!!!!!!!!

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
105b WOODHILL ROAD
WOOLWICH SE18 5HW
LONDON
www.freelotto.com

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky
winners in the FreeLotto draw held on the 1st of
August 2007. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international
emails.Your email address emerged alongside 9 others
as a category 2 winner in our FreeLotto Draw.
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a
total pay out of £1,000,000 (one million british pounds) only.The
following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/07/736207152/UK

Please contact the underlisted chief financial director as soon as
possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr.Dennis Johnson
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
TEL: +44 70359 02174
+44 70457 15763
financial_dr_dennis@winning.com


Please note the steps to claim your prize;
1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
chief financial director.
2.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number and means of
identification (international passport or drivers licence)to the chief
financial director to process immediate payment of their prize.
3.And due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep
this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants of this programme.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Cindy Robertson
Secretary to Mr Kevin Aronin
Chairman & CEO
The freelotto company
UK & Europe
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The freelotto Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies. The freelotto
internet draw in each quarter of the year is organized to encourage
the use of the internet and computers worldwide.


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