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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: "prensacap" <prensacap@santacruz.gov.ar>
Reply-To: office2008@luckymail.com
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:48:42 -0300
Subject:


SWISS LOTTO INTL. PROMOTION.
Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.swisslotto.ch


Attention: Winner,


SWISS LOTTO INTL. PROMOTION has just concluded its final draws of it's
periodical promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of
thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated
random computer search from the internet.No tickets were sold.Your email
address emerged as one of five(5) winners in the silver stakes category
as email addresses were soughted,from a total number of 95,000 addresses
drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our
International Promotions Program, only FIVE winners emerged in this
category and therefore each are to receive payouts of €1,500,000.00 from
the total of €7,500,000.00 (SEVEN MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
EUROS).However,every email address selected was accompanied by a
reference and ticket number, after the cyber lotto selection, the below
ticket and reference numbers emerged as one of the lucky winners in the
above category.CONGRATULATIONS!!! Reference number for your prize is:Ref.
No.-VNL/011/652659960/UK Ticket NVNL57860UKFor further processing of the
claim of your winning prize, you are to contact our UK claims Agent for
more information as regards procedures to claim your prize. Provide him
with the information below to file your Claim:


Full Names: :
Full Contact Address:
Nationality:
Country:
Telephone/ Mobile line:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:
Next of kin:


Sir David Johnson
E-mail: office2008@luckymail.com
TEL: +447023088810



Sincerely,Jane Anderson
Promotions Manager




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