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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: MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION AWARD 2009 <ignac.bodvai@gpinet.hu>
Reply-To: claims.msnofficials@8u8.com
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:58:47 +0100
Subject: MICROSOFT AWARD YOU GREATLY THIS SEASON!!!!




MICROSOFT ONLINE PROMOTION AWARD 2009
20 Craven Park,
Harlesden London NW10,
United Kingdom.

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you that you have won a
prize money ofEight Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterlings(?800.000.=
00) for
online Sweepstakes International program held the month of MARCH 2009
Lottery promotion which is organized by MICROSOFT PROMOTION AWARD in
collects of all the emails addresses of the people that are active online,
among the millions that subscribed to Hotmail and other mail subscribed,
we only select TEN people every six month,as our lucky winners through elect=
ronic balloting and
this is the System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being=
one of the (Ten lucky
winners) selected.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number:401978G
Ref number:BTD/976/06
Ticket Number:564 75600545-188.
To file your claims, please contact our
Fudiciary Agent with the information below,
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Name : Mr.Brown Anderson
E-mail:claims.msnofficials@8u8.com
Telephone: (+44)70359 22918
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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
1.FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:
4.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:
5.NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:
6.SEX:
7.OCCUPATION:
8.MARITAL STATUS:
9.NATIONALITY:
10.Your Reference and Batch number:
11. AMOUNT WON:

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED ANY SETTLEMENT FROM THE QUEEN OF=
ENGLAND, MICROSOFT
PROMOTION PRIZE
AWARDSWINNING NOR ANY MENBER OF MY FAMILY FILLED CLAIM ON MY BEHALF TO MICRO=
SOFT AWARD
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION.

Congratulations once more.
Faithfully,

Mrs.Kate Moore,
Online Co-ordinator.
Copyright (C) microsoftonlinepromoaward Ltd.

(C)2009

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