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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: <international_awardprize2010@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: <colinrobert_claimsdept@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:46:32 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION TO THE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS!!!

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT

Ref Number:NL 52 4355 622
Batch Number:366 446 275-NL/2010
Amount Won: 2, 500, 000.00. USD

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" CYBER LOTTO DRAWS

Dear Internet User

We are pleased to inform you of the results of our cyber lotto draw of Lottery NL Promotional Draws. The online electronic-raffle draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 250,000 e-mail accounts picked by our Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive list However, no tickets were sold.

After the automated computer ballot collection, your e-mail address emerged as a winner category "A" with the following numbers attached
(Ref Number: NL 52 4355 622, Batch Number: 366 446 275-NL/2010.

You are therefore to receive a cash prize of 2,500,000.00.USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout sum! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the owner of the winning email address.Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,

For statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To file in for the claims of your winning cashprize, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:

FOREIGN CLAIMS AGENT

Name:Colin Robert
Tel :+31 647 250 558
Email:colinrobert_claimsdept@yahoo.cn

You are advised to provide him with the following information:

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference numbers and the password of your E-mail address. Since we do not Know you, if an impostor hacks your E-mail account ID and claims your money without our knowledge, we shall not be hold liable. Double claims will not be Entertained, so be careful.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations!!! And thank you for being a user of the World Wide Web.

Yours Sincerely,
Adams Bricks
ONLINE LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.

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