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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: "FROM THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT." <international_prize1@yahoo.dk>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:26:14 +0300
Subject: You are a Category "A" Winner, Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!

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
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 surplus 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 ($2.5,000,000.00) 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.

CLAIMS AGENT.
Name: David Cole
Phone: 31- 626-625-511
Fax : 31-847 -147 -474
Email: surfclaimsdept@yahoo.dk

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),

Yours Faithfully,
Marry Jones


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