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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: "Gaming de Winners" <adminotzy@claim-officedept.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:54:27 -1100
Subject: You Are Our Lucky Winner for 2007!

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

Attention,

We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged a winner in the annual draw of our Lottery International Programs.
Your email address was selected by our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive list of 250,000,000 e-mail addresses
of individual and corporate bodies generated from an internet resource database. No tickets were sold.

Your email address is identified with Batch Number: 444821545-NL/2007 and Ticket Number: PP 3812 /2007-07 in Category "A" and your
claims portfolio is filed with Ref Number:MARKT 80 ES 9414.You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00.
(Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Your prize award has been insured under a bonded depository policy with your e-mail address, and will be transferred to you upon
meeting the claims requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To file for the processing of your prize sum payment, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent
for category "A" winners with the information below:

*************************************
Name: Mr. Morris Decker
Tel: +31 644 893 668
Email: info_marktzuid@yahoo.de
*************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:

Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.

Yours Faithfully,

Luis Brown
Lottery Coordinator.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. Personal and winning data provided by winners to THIS PROMO remains known ONLY to the winner and
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS ORGANISATION.

2a. All e-mail addresses, contact information, photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT be published or
disclosed on ANY public or in any other public place or via any medium accessible to the public.

2b. All e-mail addresses, contact information, photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT be disclosed to or
made available to any third party or agent outside the claims office.

3. All e-mail addresses, contact information and/or personal data of winners are kept in an isolated database server protected
from any external access using SSL locking on 6th level binary pharse. This data is made accessible ONLY to
MARKT INTERNATIONAL CYBER LOTTERY staff and authorized agents directly involved with the processing of winners claims.

4. Winners are advised to keep their winning information away from public knowledge, in order to avoid any double claims,
impersonation or misrepresentation during the claims process. MARKT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS will
not be liable for any misplaced claims owing to your negligence or publishing of your winning information.
Your Email ID Selcetion in Category "A" Award

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