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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: AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMO <ausmmk01@msn.com>
Reply-To: <paymentoffice.milton40@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:19:52 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION:YOU HAVE WON $500,000,00USD IN THE AUSTRALIAN DRAW



YOU HAVE WON $500,000,00 DOLLARS
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released today being 14th March 2009, from the
Australian International Lottery program, which is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners
using their e-mail address from some sites. Your email
address was attached to ticket number;
4700172507056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42
and bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery
in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
USD$500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
ONLY) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the
total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in
this category. All participants were selected through
a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred
thousand E-mail addresses.

Furthermore, your details (e-mail address) fall within
our European representative office in
Amsterdam,Holland as indicated in your play coupon and
your prize of USD$500,000.00 will be released to you
from this regional office in NIGERIA. We hope that
with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.5 Billion
international draw. To file for your claim, please
contact our director of finance.

Name: Mr.Benson Milton.
Email:paymentoffice.milton40@gmail.com


PROVIDE THE BELLOW INFORMATIONS:
1]YOUR NAMES:

2]AGE:

3]NATIONALITY:

4]CONTACT NUMBER:

5]OCCUPATION:

6]SEX:

7]CONTACT ADDRESS:

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
program by non-participants or unofficial personnel.
Note: all winnings MUST be claimed before the 20th
April 2009; otherwise all funds will be returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organizations.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Rosemary Quiles.
Coordinator,

NOTE: Do not reply to me, rather you are to contact
Mr.Benson Milton.

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