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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: Yahoo Internet Award Winning <infomailawardon2008@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:34:07 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!



YAHOO INTERNET AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION=09
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YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY [http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login=3F/ym/Compose=3FTo=3D=
arabtrans@arabtrans.com]
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $920,000.00!=20
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is rando=
mly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prize=
s from us. We are pleased to inform you that your E-mail ID has won prize =
money of (Nine Hundred And twenty Thousand US Dollars) ($920,000.00) for t=
he month of FEBRUARY:2008 Yahoo Lottery Winners Promotion which is organiz=
ed by yahoo.messenger.com [http://yahoo.messenger.com/] every month. YAHOO=
! Collects all the E-mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo, among=
the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger. Twelve Winners are select=
ed every month through electronic balloting System without the winner appl=
ication. We are congratulating you for been one of the lucky selected Winn=
ers. All participants were selected through a computer electronic ballotin=
g system drawn from Nine Hundred Thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Au=
stralia, America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of=
our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lo=
ttery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational c=
ompanies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the com=
munities where they have operational bases. Further, more your details (E-=
mail ID) falls within our Spanish representative office in Spain, as indic=
ated in your play coupon and your prize of $920,000.00 USD will be release=
d to you from this regional branch office in Spain. We hope with part of y=
our prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 =
Billion International Draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identifi=
cation numbers... Batch number.....................Lwh 09445Lotto number..=
.....................Lwh09446Winning number...................Lwh09447 To =
begin your claims, kindly contact the Fiduciary Agency; EUROPEAN CONSULTS =
S.A.Contact Person: DR. TOMDELI GERALD and=20
MRS. VERONIKA AUDEO
: euroconsultuno@aim.com [mailto:euroconsultuno@aim.com] TEL: +34 664 709 =
351 FAX: +34 911 849 996You are required to forward him with the following=
details: 1. FULL NAME2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN3. PRESENT ADDRESS4. SEX5. DATE =
OF BIRTH6. AGE 7. OCCUPATION8. TELEPHONE NUMBER9. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)10. M=
ARITAL STATUS11. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER12. THE MONT=
H YOU WON...13. AMOUNT WON... As soon as you contact the Agent, he will ad=
vise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Congratulations o=
nce more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this inform=
ation confidential from the public notice until your claim is processed an=
d your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avo=
id double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by n=
on-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely,Dr. MOORE (PHD)LOT=
TO CO-ORDINATOR.**The Yahoo.com [http://yahoo.com/] staff*
http://www.yahoo.com [http://www.yahoo.com/]*=09


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Bis 50 MB Dateianh=E4nge=3F Kein Problem!=20
*http://freemail.web.de/club/landingpage.htm/=3Fmc=3D025556* [http://freemail.=
web.de/club/landingpage.htm/=3Fmc=3D025556]

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