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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: YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER <paulineerran@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 03:49:22 -0600
Subject: RE: CONGRATULATIONS!!!, YOU ARE A LUCKY WINNER






POWERBALL INTER LOTTO. BV POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GAME 2007, Date: 05 - 10- 2007 Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP BATCH Nº: 14/0017/1PD Coupon No.: PBL2348974321

CONTACT: lotteryffc@yahoo.com

Dear Consolation Prize Winner,

The POWERBALL INTER LOTTO BV, England; lotto e-games Organizers and sponsors officially notify you of the final draw result of the Power ball Lotto - Wheel E-game draw held on 5th May 2007. All Draws where conducted at our international corporate office complex in The Netherlands.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number, which was selected among the 7 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL2348974321 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 10,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 10,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of US $10,000,000 (Ten million US Dollars Only). The POWERBALL INTER LOTTO BV, have approved the payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency to released your payment via bank transfer.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize. For more information on claim of your prize, please contact the DPU Information Officer.

NAME: Mr. Louis StevenE-mail: lotteryffc@yahoo.com TEL: FAX:
Be advice to keep you’re winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth-coming Power ball Lotto-Wheel Email-games in 2010.



Regards, Executive (Bristish Lottery Intern.)

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 7 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning information's you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it. All winning must be claimed not later than 29nd October 2007. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to British Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
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