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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: " Lotto.nl Promotional Draws" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <soresenholms09@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:24:07 +0200
Subject: Reference Number:MSP 91104 EL 7612

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" CYBER LOTTO DRAWS





Dear Winner

We are pleased to inform you of results of our cyber lottery draw of the Lotto.nl Promotional Draws.

The online electronic-raffle draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 250,000 international emails accounts picked by our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive list However, no tickets were sold.

After the automated computer ballot collection, your e-mail address emerged as a winner category "A" with the following numbers attached:

(i) Reference Number:MSP 91104 EL 7612
(ii) Batch Number: 563881545-NL/2009
(iii)Ticket Number: PA 3502 /8707-01

You are therefore to receive a cash prize of 2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout sum.

The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the owner of the winning email address. In line with the Governing rules of claim, you are required to establish contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the particulars below:

Mr. Soresen Holms jr
Foreign claims agent Netherlands Office.

Contact Email: soresenholms09@yahoo.cn

Tel: +31 619 970 279
Fax: +31 847 455 835

You are advised to provide him with the following information:
DATA PROFILE

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

We ask that you keep your Winning information confidential until your claims have been processed. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participant.

Endeavour to include your email address when sending a fax for verification purpose. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations!!! And thank you for being a user of the World Wide Web.


Sincerely,

Mrs Lizette Van Dendoff
Event Manager




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