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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: "eronymous@windowslive.com"<eronymous@windowslive.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 2:25:23 -0500
Subject: Classified Information

AMOUNT WON: €2,000,000:00
REF: DRF/933221523/542
BATCH: EU75011
E-LOTTERY SERVICES AGENCY
CLAIM PROCESSING OFFICE:
RUE BELLIARD 25-33 1040 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
WINNING NUMBER: 5-13-23-27-36-38-48
Joker number: 5-7-3-4-1-5-7


WINNING NOTIFICATION

This is to notify you that your Email Address attached to a Ticket Number (106012) 
has won an Award Sum of 2,000,000.00 Euros (TWO MILLION EUROS) .

Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address, with serial number 
5073-12 drew the lucky numbers, this lucky number subsequently won you 
the lottery in the 2nd category.

In an Email Sweepstakes program held by the European Lottery commission in conjunction with E-lottery Services on the 12th of September 2009,and was release today the 12th October 2009. Please contact E-lottery Services for Your Claim

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report.Your assigned claims Agency will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him/her via electronic mail (email) or other options made available to you.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem ok to claim your prize.

 

To file for your claim, please contact your claims agent in the underlisted Region Official:

 

EUROPEAN CLAIM AGENT OFFICE.
E-LOTTERY SERVICES
Mr. George Eric Walter
EU Representative Office
Belliardstraat, 25-33 1040-BRUSSEL
TEL:+32(0)493 938 712
FAX:+32(0)704 00375
Emails: winningsclaim@e-lotteryservices.com


PLEASE NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your REFERENCE NUMBER and your BATCH NUMBER in all Correspondence. Furthermore, You should receive a Password and link to our website to confirm your Winnings and this Password has to be requested of from the E-lottery Services Agent.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Kim Janssens.
Coordinator

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