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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: "EUROPE SUPER LOTTO" (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:08:33 +0200
Subject: EUROPE SUPER LOTTO WINNER !!!!!!

EUROPE SUPER LOTTO PROMOTIONS

WINNING NOTIFICATION !


We Congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners of the 2009 online Web promo.

YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON € 1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) in the first category of our computer ballot free email lottery prize

Participants were selected randomly from the Internet Users through a computer draw system extracted from over a million personal and corporate e-mails that were listed on line.

Your Winning Ticket no is WEX98S574TT and your Batch no is 2983JM/WIN/IPS.

No ticket was sold but it is to encourage the use of Internet world wide and to receive your prize you are requested to contact the Payment Agent In charge of Your Region in Netherlands and send your full details including.

Full Name ...............................................................

Address ................................................................

Telephone Number...........................................................

Fax Number.................................................................

Sex........................................................................


Nationality...............................................................

Winning ticket number....................................................

Batch Number.............................................................

To file in for the processing and release of your winning sum of € 1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) you are advised to immediately contact our accredited claims agent with the information stated below:

***************************************************************************

Name: Mr. Paul Anderson
Tel/Fax: +31 84 755 2015
Email: emclaimoffices@aol.nl

***************************************************************** **********
All winnings must be claimed not later than 30days;


Congratulations once again from all staff and board members of EUROPE SUPER LOTTO COMPANY. Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of
confidentiality,and press anonymity until the end of proceedings,and beyond where they so desire.Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yours faithfully,
Stella Kurt (Mrs)
Online coordinator for EUROPE SUPER LOTTO COMPANY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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