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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: "ASIAN LOTTERY EMAIL AWARD" <isohitecsec@aim.com>
Reply-To: infoisohitec@mcom.com
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:16:07 -0200 (GMT+2)
Subject: Asia International Lottery Award 2010.




Asia International Lottery Award
****************************
We are pleased to inform you of the result in the just concluded annual
final draws of the ASIAN NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY programs. The
online cyber lotto draw was conducted from an exclusive list of 1,000,000
(One Million) e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet,so no
tickets were sold to enter for the promotions.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of
two winners in the category \\"A"\\ You have therefore been approved to claim
the sum of US$679,999,000 (Six Hundred And Seventy Nine Thousand,Nine Hundred
And Ninety-Nine United States Dollars Only) with the information below:

Mr.Craig Emerson
Iso Hitec Security,
Email:infoisohitec@mcom.com

Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence to your claims agent

Ticket Number: 2747-3600-2010 188
Serial Number: 5368/02/10
Batch Number:CBSTA/7913/KL/AS
Reference Number:EAP/10/17/54/2010/KL

Yours sincerely,
Fatimah Binti Usman,
Online Co-ordinator,
Asian National Lottery.



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