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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: Australia Promotions <aus7776@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mark_sahu@sify.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:19:20 +0000
Subject: Congratulations, You have won an email lottery



Australian National Lottery Promotions.

We are happy to announce you that you are one of the lucky winners of the last Australia lottery promotion which was held yesterday, 20th February 2009. The lottery is based on an email balloting system for internet users. The E-business promotional draws was conducted amongst 21,000,000 Email-addresses of eligible individuals/companies all over the world. Your email address emerged as one of the two winners of the Category "C" prize of $1,000,000 USD.

You are attached to ticket number; 47061725 07056490902, serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17. Further more your details (e-mail address) fall within our African representative office in, West Africa,
as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in Africa.

Therefore contact your claim agent through his email and telephone number to process your claim with your information as indicated below.

1. Full Names:
2. Address:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Marital Status:
6. Occupation:
7. Phone numbers:
8. Country:.

Contact the Claims agent:

NAME: MR. Mark T. Sahu
EMAIL: mark_sahu@sify.com
phone: +234-708-727-0290

Sincerely,
Mrs. Melisa Nicholas
Promotions Manager
Congratulations once again

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