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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: "28/02/2008 ELECTRONIC LOTTERY PROGRAMS" <info_europeanlotterycompany@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:49 -1200
Subject: REF: WE67/4360/34

EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT
1 Plough Place,
London EC4A 1DE
UNITED KINGDOM
REF: WE67/4360/34
BATCH: 11/4578/GN

Attn:Sir/Madam.

Top of days greetings to you.Finally today, we announce that
you are
one of the winners of the ELECTRONIC LOTTERY PROGRAMS.

held on 27th FEBRUARY,2008.Your company and your personal
e-mail addresses, attached to ticket number: 7-1-8-36-4-22
under
agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number 7363789,which
consequently won in
the Tenth lottery category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
860,641.28 Great
British Pounds(GBP) which amounts to $1,500,000.00 (One
Million,Five
Hundred Thousand United States DOLLARS).

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of
email addresses
from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of
individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search
from the internet. No ticket were sold but all email
addresses were
assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and
privacy.
This is to encourage our prominent and consistent Microsoft
Internet
Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continues
use of
E-mail.

Your fund has been insured with your identification number
{CPEL/OWN/9876}. To claim your winning prize, you must first
contact
the claims department by email for Processing and remittance
of your
prize to you.

Mr.Mark David
Lottery Co-ordinator
TEL:+447 045 740 589
FAX:+447 024 098 309
EMAIL:info_europeanlotterycompany@yahoo.com.hk

FILL THE FORM BELOW WITH YOUR DATAS

1.Full Name:____________________
2.Address:______________________
3.Nationality:____________________
4.Age:______________________________
5.Occupation:____________________
6.Phone:________________________
7.State of Origin:_________________
8.Country:______________________

NOTE: Ensure to quote your Reference Numbers in all your
communication with your claims agent.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,
Mrs. Becky Owen
Lottery Co-ordinator




















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