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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: "Navara Gomez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info@freelottoweb.es>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:15:34 +0200
Subject: Free lotto

Loteria Nacional
Madrid, Spain

Loteria Nacional Special Global 2010 Promotional Draw.

Attn:Beneficiary

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our first quarter winners of the Loteria Nacional

The selection was made from the list of over 990,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet, no tickets were sold.

The Loteria Nacional 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Telefonica telecommunication, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota, Toshiba, Dell computers.To Simply encourage the use of Internet and computers.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category "B" with the following winning information's: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000 Eur (One Million Euro Only).

REF No: ESMAD/File-PM01934

Information's required from you as part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To claim your won prize, please contact our Foreign Transfer Manager Mr. ALEJANDRO FELIPA neatly filling the verification and fund release form below.

Sincerely,
Fiduciary Agent,
ALEJANDRO FELIPA
Tel:34-626-590-329
Fax:34-912-919-710
Email:office@freelotweb.eu
Email:alejandrofelip@aol.com


Payment Processing Form:

1.Full names:____________________
2.Address:_______________________
3.Sex:___________________________
4.Age:___________________________
5.Occupation:____________________
6.E-mail address:________________
7.Telephone number:_________Fax__
8.Nationality________________________

NOTE: Please be warned, your winning and its entire information are to be kept strictly confidential, this is to avoid previous bad experience this program has suffered, such as abuse of this program by other Internet user who use the name of this company for unscrupulous activities and double claiming of winning entitlement because of insecurity of winning information on the part of beneficiaries. Always call to ensure you are dealing with the right office.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Spanish Lottery Board Commission.

Yours Sincerely,
MRS.Navara Gomez.
Loteria Nacional COORDINATOR

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