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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: "FROM THE DESK OF MRS. STELLA WANG" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <pladams2010@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:40:13 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONES NEEDED STELLA .............

FROM THE DESK OF MRS. STELLA WANG
4TH FLOOR, 21 WOODLANDS CLOSE GOLDERS
GREEN LONDON NW11 9QR UNITED KINGDOM
HEADING :{AWARD RESULT 2009}

>From Safe Internet Lottery Foundation in Association with Readers
Digest, we happily announce to you that you have won award of $750,000
at the China Payment Center.

Ticket Number: 44-09-42-09-94-4Q
Serial Number: 66-Q99
Batch Number: UK/PPT/090/033D
Reference Number: LM/0800/LK/WRQ
Drew Date: 15th Jan. 2010

Your email address name attached to a ticket number: 44-09-42-09-94-4Q
with the serial number: 66-Q99 drew the lucky number: 09-54-90-76-00
which consequently won the draw in the 1st category. Your email
address was among the (10) email addresses chosen to receive grand
prize of US$750,000.00 each in this section. Therefore you must
contact your Claim Agent.

MR. PAUL ADAMS
Email: pladams2010@yahoo.cn
Address: 16 Mananching Building,
China Immigration Centre, Floor 1108,
Beijing, China.

He will need to confirm everything we have on file to ensure that
there will be no set backs upon the release of these funds to you.
I want you to know that verification and confirmation of all of your
payment documents have been sent to our affiliate company, The
International Lottery Board of Commissions from our processing office.
Also, be rest assured that your winning will be sent to you as {ATM
Card or Bank Transfer} which can be used in any Atm machine worldwide.
This will be issued from our paying bank in China.

Your won prize cannot be deducted, simply because this is a
promotional award, until prize is released to you due to strict
insurance policy. After you have received your money, we expect you to
use some of the money to spread Internet knowledge within your
locality and remember to support our next promotion. We have five
clearance offices zoned continentally AUSTRALIA,CHINA,USA,LONDON &
ALGERIA. Clearance zones are picked randomly by computer, each winning
number falls within any of the clearance zones picked, it is the duty
of the approved zonal clearance officer to handle all clearance
processes to make sure bank releases won prize in time.

Your prize number falls within Asia region clearance office in
Beijing, China . In view of this, your prize will be released from
China, your money has been deposited in the bank with insurance
coverage.

Your clearance agent will facilitate payment process immediately you
contact him.

Contact with your information below:

Full Name:............
Marital Status:............
Age:...................
Occupation:..................
Home Phone:.....................
Mobile Phone:...................
City/Country:................
Nationality:....................
Ref No:....................
Batch No:.........................

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