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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: "Touponce William F" <correomani@arsystel.com>
Reply-To: verify@eddie-goodman.net
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:38:33 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!




Rolls Royce MOTORS WORLDWIDE LTD.
Internet User Encouragement Centre
Rolls Royce Motors
P.O. Box 108
Manchester
M4 1LE


We are officially announcing to you the result of Rolls Royce Motors Email
Lottery promotion held on the 28th OCTOBER 2010 as part of our programs to
Launch
Our multi million dollar office that was commissioned on 20th of October
2010 in
Manchester United Kingdom. Your email was attached to ticket number RRMRS-
UK-VP990003-111 with draw number P93VWJ which consequently won you in The 2nd
category prize, your email address was extracted from our electronic Email
extraction system which randomly selected Fifth teen (15) Lucky Winners of
which your email address was among one of the lucky winner.
You have therefore been approved for a payout of a total sum ?1,000,000.00
(One Million Pounds Sterling).


CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We also advise that you keep your winning information very confidential as
our
security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and
unwarranted abuse
of this program by some individuals. The selection process was carried our
through
our computerized Email Selection System (ESS) which selects email from a
database of
over 600,000 email address was drawn from all over the continents of the
World.This
promotions being the first of its kind will now take place annually and we
hope you
will also take part in our next year Five Million Pounds Sterling
International
Lottery Game. To file your claim, you are to contact our Customer Service
Unit
authorized to conduct the necessary Verification to enable you receive
your Cash
Prize.(You will receive more email upon acknowledgement of this email).



Customer Service Unit


CONTRACTED AGENCY: DE MONT FORT ASSOCIATE LAW FIRM

CONTACT PERSON



Mr Greg Mont Fort.
Tel : +44 702 408 2883
Email: verify@eddie-goodman.net
20 Queens land Road, Manchester
SW2 3JB ENGLAND. U.K
---------------------------

You are to call your claims agent assigned for your claims, or send an
email to them, you are to provide to your agents the below under listed

information as soon as possible:


1. NAME IN FULL:
2. ADDRESS (IN FULL):
3. NATIONALITY:
4. AGE:
5. SEX:
6. OCCUPATION (POSITION HELD):
7. HOME/MOBILE & FAX NUMBER:


This program is promoted and sponsored by Microsoft, Emirates Airline and
the Shell
Group and we intend to use this medium to help individuals generate
fortunes, which
would encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more
opportunities and assisting with humanitarian Concerns within their immediate
environment. All winning must be claimed not later than one Week of
Acknowledgment.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to RR Motors Treasury
as Unclaimed.



Yours in service,
Touponce William F



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