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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: Paco Alfredo Gomez <draw2007lottery@inMail24.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:52:00 +0100
Subject: REFERENCE:89/00/PPF


EUROMILLIONS INTL LOTTERY
REFERENCE:89/00/PPF
Nº:ET2/75/69/LLP

RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you that youremail adress has been selected as one of the 12 winning emails in the EURO MILLIONS lottery programme conducted on the 4TH of DEC 2007. The Late result notification was due to difficulties encountered in sorting out mixed up numbers & email.

Your email address has been approved a lump sum payout of 1,298,404.07 (ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR EURO, SEVEN CENTS) from our 2007 END OF YEAR INTERNET AND CHARITY BONANZA. We use this meduim to compensate those who had loosed in the lottery games and also to encourage the use of ONLINE LOTTERY GAMES, INTERNET SURFING AND BUSINESS PURSUITS.

The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of 50,000,000 Internet Email Users, from which your lucky email Address came out as one of the 12th lucky winning email address attached to REF Nº: EFF 28/10/80/EES..


You are to contact and process your winning prize not later than 1 week, after this date if you do not contact and process your winning prize, all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed. You are therefore requested to contact immediately your claims officer below via telephone & email quoting your, winning Nº : 1/17 /24 /26 /30 /49 /14, Ref Nº:REFE:89/00/PPF , Ticket Nº:ET2/75/69/LLP
Mr RICHARD ANTONIO
a.agroconsultant@yahoo.es
TEL: +34-619-693-930
AGRO SEGUROS S.A
Paco Alfredo Gomez
Promotion Department..

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