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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: "EURO MILLIONES"<richarr.browns@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:24:10 +0200
Subject: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

EURO MILLIONES ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!

REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION

ACT OF; (Registration SP720633X)

MADRID-SPAIN.





Email: donpedromartinez.es@gmail.com

Ref: Nº: EF/1-15-17-25-45-2-8

Batch: Nº: 044-38



CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WON!!!



Dear Winner,



The Euro milliones International has setup an email random lotto promotional programme to celebrate and acknowledge their 50th years of existence and to encourage the use of internet world wide for academic and business pursuits.



To grace this successful existence of Euro-milliones lottery. They have decided to give out prize randomly, which was conducted at the international corporate office complex in Spain on 14th June 2009. Also there was a promotional programme held here in Spain on the 28th of April 2009 where different participants from all over the world purchased a ticket to enter for it,



But due to our COMPUTER TICKET ERROR, nobody won the lucky prize, so therefore the euro-milliones españa int'l realized so much funds from this jackpot and the only way we can use to compensate those who had participated is via email, which we are actually using this medium as a new method to give away lucky prize to just 300 lucky email addresses.

The late release was due to difficulties in sorting out email addresses. NO TICKETS WERE SOLD OUT, and your lucky email address with Batch No: 044-38 was randomly selected, as a Star Cash prize of (US $ 342,185.00) Three hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and eighty five US DOLLARS.



(A) CHEQUE (B) CASH PICK-UP (C) BANK TRANSFERS.



To start your prize award claiming, Contact your Government Approved Agent,



Don Pedro M. Martinez

Director of Mapfre Insurance Plc

Plaza Mapfre Ozu-es 1-7

50012, Zaragoza Spain.

Tel/Fax: +34 917 919 111

Mobile: +34 666 298 013

Email: donpedromartinez.es@gmail.com



When contacting your agent, quote your Ref Nº: EF/1-15-17-25-45-2-8 and Batch Nº: 044-38



YOUR FULL NAME……………………



YOUR RESIDING COUNTRY…………..



YOUR MOBILE NUMBER………………….



Please forward this mail back to your agent also, when contacting him for your claiming.



Congratulations once again from our staffs, Hope this will go along way to change your life.



Best regards,

Rosa Ortega R. Pablo

General Co-ordinator.

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