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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: "Mrs. Manzanita Faro ," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <abel.caro0@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:24:25 -0800
Subject: (The total sum of US$900.000.00 , Awarded To You!

Microsoft Department of Promotion
Microsoft 1234 Locust Street,
St. Louis,
Missouri U.S.A.
 
Attention: Lucky Winner,
 
We congratulate you, being one of the lucky winners of  the result of
the  Annual Microsoft Email Award held on the 16th of
 
October 2010 in  Usa . Your email address emerged as one of the 10
lucky winners selected electronically by our Electronic
 
lotto Wheel. The total sum of  $900.000.00(Nine Hundred Thousand
Dollars) has been accredited to your email address file
 
number.
Winners were selected randomly from our list of millions of email
addresses around Europe Africa, Asia, And United States Of
 
America to promote computer literacy worldwide as well as to advertise
our software and computer products. This promotion was
 
sponsored by a conglomerate of software and computer  promotion
companies like Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers Apple,
 
and other International  software and computers manufacturing Companies.
Your email address number in our file was chosen in the European
lottery Coupon network whereby your number came up as one of
 
the lucky winners of our prize money, hence, your price money will be
remitted to your choice account, in your country
 
through Federal Reserve Bank.
Your winning details are as follows:
 
Batch No: 00199709
Email File No:22227x1
Coupon No: ITR3339x1
Amount Won: US$900.000,00 (Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars Only)
 
Fill this Info Below..
 
Full Name :
 
address :
 
Phone Number
 
Age :
 
Occupation :
 
Contact Federal Reserve Bank Of St Louis immediately for verification,
processing and transferring of your prize money to you
 
in your country. Remember to forward them your winning details for confirmation.
 
On behalf of our CEO Mr. Bill Gates, all the 2010 promotion sponsors,
we congratulate you on your winning..
 
Mrs. Manzanita  Faro ,
Prof. Tom Southgate
(Publicity Secretary) (On-line Coordinator)

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