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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: STMICROELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED <info@st.net>
Reply-To: stmicro_companyagent_uk@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:18:26 -0400
Subject:



STMICROELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED
Address : 39, Chemin du Champ des Filles
C. P. 21
CH 1228 Plan-Les-Ouates
GENEVA, Switzerland
Web Site : www.st.com

:::______Web Site : www.st.com________:::
Dear Winner,

We at STmicroelectronics global office likes to officially congratulate
you for the draw that was just held by our company which featured you as
the second place winner. Our company holds promotions each year just to
promote our global publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit more
corners of the world with our highly valued productsline.This promotion is
just one of various ways we are presently using to achieve this global
vision of ours.

Your email address with MICROS ID ( PLD-29103-LGT-901GH-9JL) was luckily
drawn to be this year's second place winner of a Brand New bmw 2008 Jeep
and a cash prize of $850,000 United States Dollars.This
money and gift we believe will enable you make some impact in the society
and possibly invest in our company in the near future.

You are hereby requested to contact our agent for more details on our
promotion in particular before taking furtheractions to claiming your
prize.Ensure you contact Mr A . Cuomo who is
our claims official in Europe.United Kingdom and also a Representative
whom understand your english and some european languages.See details of
him below.

Name : A . Cuomo
Email : stmicro_companyclaimsagent@yahoo.com.hk
Address : Embark Lane 23, London. United Kingdom
Telephone : +44 70 3597 5140

When contacting the claims agent you should include the following if you
must get a response from him;

Your Full Name.
Address ......................
State.........................
Phone number ...................
Age..........................
Gender........................
Occupation....................
Winning email and Micros ID...........

Note that you are to indicate your chioce of redeeming your funds
either by delivery company or through Bank transfer.

1 Bank to Bank........
2 Delivery Company......

We know you must be excited and very happy about this news you have
just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to put
smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you
will need to pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo
on the BMW that you have just won for a minimum of 6months.

Special greetings from the entire family of STmicroelectronics
Worldwide. For more information visit our web site,www.st.com
Signed,
Mr, C.Ferro (Chief Financial Officer)


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