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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: =?UTF-8?B?TWljcm9zb2Z0wq4=?= <bibliomonde@noos.fr>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:27:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: MSW-L/11/17/18/25/08

Dear Esteemed Winner

This is to inform you that your email address has just won £5,500,000.00 (Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds). Your e-mail address attached to ticket number S/N-00168, serial number S/N-00168, drew the lucky numbers 887-13-865-37-10-83 which consequently won in the 1st category.

All participants from the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

PLEASE CONTACT OUR APPROVED AGENT FOR YOUR REGION WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBER AND YOUR FILLED CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW.

WINNING NUMBER: MSW-L/11/17/18/25/08
MS WORD LOTTERY: v7.0

VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:
1. Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Age: Date of Birth:
5. Occupation:
6. Phone: Fax: Country:

Upon receipt of the requested data, you will be provided with contact information of the payment office so you can contact them for the immediate release of your winnings to you. Do contact your claims officer Carolyn T. Willis at once by email

CONGRATULATIONS FROM ALL MEMBERS OF STAFF OF MICROSOFT WORD LOTTERY

Carolyn T. Willis (Mrs.)
DIRECTOR; CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
E-MAIL: ms_willis6@w.cn


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