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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: "MARKT.NL" <markt.info@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:19:09 +0900
Subject: END OF THE YEAR WINNING CONGRATULATIONS!!!

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

Attn: Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged a winner in the annual
draw of our MARKT 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. Tony Ivan
Tel:+31 61 693 7593
Email: markt.claims@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 as a owing to your
negligence or publishing of your winning information.



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