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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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Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: 5 Dec 2007 12:47:43 -0000
Subject: Congratulations


<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><link href="http://media.monstergulf.com/style_2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head><body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table width="100%" align="center"><tr><td align="left" width="100%"><pre class="td_2"></pre></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="center">
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>ALSTAATS LOT</b></font>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Alstaats Lot</b></font><br />
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><BR>
Netherlands</font>
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<td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>Email:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="mailto:alstaatslot@yahoo.com">alstaatslot@yahoo.com</a><br>
<strong>Phone:</strong>&nbsp;31-47833-1222<br/><strong>Mobile:</strong>&nbsp;Not specified<br/><strong>Current Location:</strong>&nbsp;Netherlands<br/>
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<b>Date of Birth</b> &nbsp;15 Apr 1955<br><b>Gender</b> &nbsp;Male<br><b>Citizenship</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;Portugal<BR><b>Languages</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;English<BR><b>Religion</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;Christianity
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<td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">25 years 1 month</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Not Specified</font></td>
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<td bgcolor="FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Umm Al Qaiwain</font></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana,tahoma,geneva,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><!--detailed_resume_starts--><pre style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ALSTAATS LOT.
Email:alstaatslot@yahoo.com
Paleisstraat 5, 2514
JA Den Haag, Netherlands.
Ref.: 01752-546408
Batch: 0476374W08

Dear E-mail Owner,

Your email address, won in our special Lottery held in October 2007. You are formally approved to receive 250
Thousand Euros as prize. Tickets were not sold for this program, therefore Winners were randomly chosen by
an automated system, which were drawn from 897 thousand company and individual e-mail addresses.

Safe-guard your winning data till you receive your money. This is to curb impersonators and undue abuse of
this promotional program by criminals.

You are to either receive it in person (You will get instructions on how-to, when you contact us at the
above e-mail) or use service of the below attorney we recommend if you cannot travel due to personal reasons.

Tony Smit
Email:to.smit@laposte.net

To avoid delays, please remember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers to the attorney. You must act now
to receive your money within THREE weeks starting from today. If not, it will be null and void.

Congratulations once more from our staff members and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Under 18yrs is automatically disqualified.
Best wishes,
Mr. Samuel Hendry
Management
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