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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: "Mr.Jun Huan" <mrjhjunhu@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: mrjhjunhuanh@yahoo.cn
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:54:06 -0300 (ART)
Subject: LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION!!




Staats Lottery International.
Promotional/Sweepstakes Office
Laan van Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk
KvK: 41151075
The Netherlands.

We are pleased to inform you that your email address has won 1,520,000:00
Euro (One Million Five Hundred & Twenty Thousand Euro Only) in the
Netherlands Staats Lottery Sweepstakes promotional program, conducted
date 05 -05-2010. This is a free promotional program sponsored by
consortium of software companies, which mean Lottery tickets were not
sold.
For more information's/procedure of your winning claim, you are advice to
contact our processing department with the contact information below,
provide them with your


Details:

(I) Batch numbers: NL 01/66108
(ii) Ticket number: NL 542/02/87
(iii) Ref number: NL/1234/10/08
claimingprocessing@gmail.com
Contact Person.
Barrister Mark Van Poort
Lottery Processing Dept
TEL:+31-617 179 079
Fax:31-847105262
:Emailclaimingprocessing@gmail.com

(1)Full Name :
(2)Tel/Fax # :
(3)Ref, Batch and Ticket Numbers in the email received:
(4)Country origin:
(5)Amount Won:
(6)Age:
(7)Occupation:
(8)Contact Address

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 25th of June 2010,
after this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Note None resident winner of the Netherlands you will be
required to pay the sum of 800 euros for the Insurance and the
legalization/notarization of
your Winning documents.

CONGRATULATIONS;

Sweepstakes International Program.staatsloterij.
Mr. Roethof Van Beer
Online coordinator.
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