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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: "MICROSOFT ORGANISATIONAL PROMO" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <organisationalpromo88@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:27:41 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!! YOUR EMAIL WON $1,000,000 USD

Dear beneficiary,

We have actually been authorized by the newly appointed UN secretary general,and the governing body of MICROSOFT MSN to release the recent E-mail Ballot Draw held on 1st MAY,2010. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 187, with Serial number 87-11 drew the lucky numbers: 12,37,39,40,50,01 Bonus 02. Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION USD) which has been credited into an ATM MASTER CARD. The security for your funds was organized in the form of your personal Identification number (PIN) ATM CARD, this will enable only you have direct Control over this fund for security reasons. Therefore contact our card payment center in care of Rev John Fred via email: ikobohelpdesk88@sify.com and also send the following information as stated below for the direction of the release of your atm card to your designated
mailing address.

1.Name:-
2.Address:-
3.Date of Birth:-
4.Occupation:-
5.Age:-
6.Sex:-
7.Nationality:-
8.Country Of Residence:-
9.Home phone:-
10.Cell phone:-


The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and
corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses
were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

Congratulations !!!

Sincerely,
MRS SANDRA BROWN,
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR

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