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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: "Claims Online" <martins62430@torba.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:21:09 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON THE 2008 CATEGORY A CASH PRIZE.


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 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/2008 and
Ticket Number: Pk 3814 /2008-04 in Category "A" and your claims portfolio
is filed with Ref Number:MARKT 80 ES 9423.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:Martin Breeks
Email:martins_claimsonlinedept@yahoo.de<Email%3Amartins_claimsonlinedept@yahoo.de>
Tel: +31 619 898 242
Fax:+31 847 439 743
*************************************

You are advice to provide him with the following information:Names:
First Name:
Last Name:
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.

You are to keep all lotto information confidential,especially your reference
and ticket numbers. This is important as a case of double claims
will not be entertained.

Members of staff of affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program. Furthermore, should there be any change of
address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more
from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional
program.

Yours Faithfully,
Carolina Wales
Lottery Coordinator.

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