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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: INFO MAIL <brandy01@web.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:06:24 +0100
Subject: YAHOO AWARD WINNING 2007



Your e-mail won €550,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
(Yahoo! Mail) Messenger
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 2nd top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (five Hundred And fiftyThousand Euros) (€550,000.00. EUROPEAN MONEY ONLY ) for the month of oct 1st Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com [http://yahoo.messenger.com/] every month. YAHOO! collects all the mail id of the people that are online, among the millions that subscribe to the world email we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Spanish representative office in Spain, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of €550,000.00 Euros will be released to you from this regional branch office in Spain,
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of the year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
*YOUR ARE NOW BEING ADVISED TO CALL THE TELEPHONE NUMBER BELOW TO TRACK YOUR PAYMENT ON LINE WORLD BANK TELEPHONE BANKING SYSTEM THE WORLD BANK BANKERS BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT IN SWITZERLAND**/THE WORLD BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT/**TEL: 0041 -445801493 ext. 4 / FAX: 0041-43-430-21-02 **LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPOSIT ACCOUNT TRACKING NUMBER IS: 784285* **GRUPAMA SEGUROS S.L MADRID SPAIN *Foreign Operation Department. GRUPAMA SEGUROSHEAD OFFICE: AVD. de <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on" ProductID="la FLORIDA N">la florida n</st1:PersonName>º 185 28023 madrid <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

BRANCH OFFICE: PLAZA INDEPENDENCIA Nº 2 <o:p></o:p>



12001 CASTELLON- ESPAÑA <o:p></o:p>

TEL+34- 628-925-172FAX +34-911-817-666Fudiciary Agent Mr, WILLIAM LUTHERE-mail: grupamaseguros@aim.com [http://us.f591.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?DMid=5377_2522057_274382_411_191_0_1937_-1_0&amp;YY=79519&amp;y5beta=yes&amp;y5beta=yes&amp;inc=200&amp;order=down&amp;sort=date&amp;pos=0&amp;view=a&amp;head=&amp;box=Draft]* HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbersYou are required to forward Them with the following details: NOTE: Please Endeavour To Choose Your Mode Of Payment:
1. Bank Transfer.
3 PICK UP CASH Batch number.....................Lw.10.21.17.36.12 Lotto number.......................Lw.19.13.27.32.49 Winning number...................Lw.45.28.14.22.18 Serial number....................Lwh009482/07 1.FULL NAME 2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3.PRESENT ADDRESS 4.SEX 5.DATE OF BIRTH 6.AGE 7.OCCUPATION 8.TELEPHONE NUMBERS/CELL 9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY) 10.MARITAL STATUS 11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER. 12.THE MONTH YOU WON 13.WINNING AMOUNT 14.MODE OF PAYMENT As soon as you contact your agent, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, Dr.MARTINS MOORE (PHD)LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.The Yahoo.com [http://yahoo.com/] staff
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