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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: "Bwin Online" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <claimsdept@interbwinOnlines.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:40:45 +0100
Subject: Congratulations

Congratulations!!!

Attn.: Winner,

In other to encourage the existing and potential customers of InterBwin Online casino, its management decided to run an email lottery program on all email addresses within reach. In the procedure, every email address was assigned to an individual ticket number and all the numbers were electronically spin mixed to emerge some few lucky winners. Few numbers emerged as the lucky star numbers after the machine spin, among them is ticket number 341143272906 which was assigned to your email address, and it won you a lump sum of 2,754,000.00 (Two Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Four thousand United States Dollar). Congratulation you are advised to contact your claim agent,

Mr. Cornelius Matthew, E-mail: claimsdept@interbwinOnlines.com

To be instructed on how to receive your prize money. Do remember to furnish him with (a) your full name (b) you home or office address (c) your phone number (D) Age (E) Occupation (F) Marital Status (G) Next Of Kin (I) Country of Origin.

Congratulations once again, and hope to count on your further or potential patronage.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs. Carolyn A. Taylor

Promotions Manager


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