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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: "Carlos" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <stevenho2@vip.163.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:10:52 +0800
Subject: When you will Claim your Prize!!! **


CAMRY TOYOTA
FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER,
ASIA PACIFIC CHINA
Customer Service
Ref: MC/7146x4/99
Batch: 132/756/2010


PAYMENT TO MAKE BY ATM CARD ONLY AND BANK WIRE
======================================================

Due to the Recent problem related to our product we have decided to promote our new
camry to reconfirm our stand to the recent fault in our brakes and malfuntional parts in
our product. As part of this promotional statue we select you as a beneficiary of our
Toyota Camry latest edition and a sum of USD$500,00000 that wil paid to your by Swift Card
and by Bank Draft payment system.

Our promotion council have decided to help stimulate the world economy by email
balloting of people that have email in the internet by random selection and your email is
among the selected email and you are qualify to receive the lump sum of USD500,000.00

And due to fraud associated with this type of promotion we have instructed all payment
to be made through ATM Card /or by Bank Draft payment so that all .

TO CLAIM CONTACT
MR. STEVEN HO

1. Name in Full:
2. Mailing Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Age/ Sex:
5. Occupation:
6. Telephone Number:
7. Present Country:
8. Your City:
9. Your State:
10. Email address:
Send above information in your correspondences with your claims agent.


Sincerely,
Reply to your agent immediately
V.P FINANCE
MR. STEVEN HO
MR. CARLOS SMITH
Email: stevenho@toyotapromo.net
Email: stevenho2@vip.163.com
LOTTO AGENT


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