419 scam: "NATIONAL EMAIL AWARD" <nssea@walla.com> Dear Consolation Prize Winner

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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:

This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +31633735550 (Netherlands, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "NATIONAL EMAIL AWARD" <nssea@walla.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:08:35 +0300
Subject: Dear Consolation Prize Winner

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION:Consolation Prize Winner,

NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE
WINNING

This email confirms that you have been notified of by the NATIONAL
SWEEPSTAKES EMAIL AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAMMS of your email lottery
winning for 2006 NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES EMAIL AWARD - Wheel E-game held on
28th February 2006.

We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number,
which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email
ID identified

with Coupon No.NL132478 and was selected by Electronic Random Selection
System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses
enrolled for the

Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different email
addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider
companies.
Ref Number:
35149/337-5247/LNILottery Group: Consolation Prize Group
Prize Amount: .500,000(Five Hundred Thousand Euro Only)

You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by
contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning
information provided above.

Mr.Amstrong O’Brien(esq.)
TEL: +316 337 355 50
FAX: +31-84-718-9958
Email: amstrobrian@netscape.ne

Congratulations once again from all our staffs on your consolation prize
winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES
EMAIL

AWARD
Yours truly,

Ms,Nichol Van Dam
(Lottery Coordinator)

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners willresult to
disqualification
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This communication together with the information it contains is Intended
for the person/s / organization/s named above
and for no other person/s /or organization/s, and
May be confidential and protected by law.Unauthorised use, copying or
disclosure of any and/or all of it may be unlawful.
Should this communication be received in error, please contact the
appropriate authourity immediately by means of a return email.
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