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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:15:50 -0700
Subject: NOTE: COPY THIS EMAIL AND REPLY { martinswalton7@live.com }

NOTE: COPY THIS EMAIL AND REPLY { martinswalton7@live.com }
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Insigma Technology Co.,Ltd
Address: 226 tianmushan Rd Hangzhou,P.R.China
Republic of China
Tel: 0574-65563378
Winners Hotline: (+44)- 704-575-8350
Fax: 0574-63569811   
   ::::____COMPANY END OF YEAR EMAIL AWARDS____::::
Dear Winner,      
     We at Insigma Technology global office likes to officially congratulate
you for the draw that was just held by our company which featured you
as the third place winner.
       Our company holds promotions each year just to promote our  global
publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit more corners of the
world with our highly valued products line.This promotion is just one
of various ways we are presently using to achieve this global vision of ours.
Your email address with MICROS ID ( DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ ) was
luckily drawn to be this year's third place winner of a Brand New
2007 AUDI A5 car and a cash prize of $580,000 United States Dollars.This
money
and gift we believe will enable you make some impact in the society and
possibly invest in our company in the near future.
---------------------------------------------------
Prizes won : AUDI A5 car and $580,000 cash
Your Micros ID is : DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ
---------------------------------------------------
All you have to so is to contact Dr,Martins Walton who is our claims
official in
Europe.. United Kingdom and can understand your english and some european
languages.See details of him below.
Name    : Dr,Martins Walton
Email   :  martinswalton7@live.com
Address : 31 Marine Road Fct, London. United Kingdom
Phone   : (+44)- 704-575-8350
When contacting the claims agent you should include the following
if you must get a response from him;
Full Name: _______        Address: _________
Occupation: ______     Country: _________
Telephone: ________        Fax Number: __________
Sex: _________                      Age: _________-
Your Qualification number is: (DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ)
**************************************************
         We know you must be excited,skeptic and very happy about this news
you
have just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to
put smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you will
need to pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo on the AUDI
A5 car
that you have just won for a minimum of 5months.
Special greetings from the entire family of Insigma Technology
Worldwide.                         
            
                        Signed,
                              Mrs, Susan Young (Announcer)
          ________________________________________________________
   *NOTE**  Beware of email scam,So only reply to our claim agent which
email : martinswalton7@live.com
 

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