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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: "Barr Raymond Kovarick" <frontoffice@moon.com.sg>
Reply-To: mtcl002@yahoo.com.cn
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:59:01 +0800
Subject: Re: Payment Information.




July, 4th 2011

Dear Lucky Winner,

THE ESPN STAR CRICKET PROMOTION USA

We are pleased to inform you of the result of
the just concluded annual final draws of Espn
Cricket Annual Promotion.

The online Espn Cricket, Annual Promo 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.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-
mail address emerged as one of twelve winners
in the fourth category for the second prize with
the following data:

Ref Number: ASIAN/945OYI/06/USA
Batch Number: 922/234/030569
Ticket Number: 099-1142092-711

You as well as the other winners are therefore to
receive a cash prize of ?750,000 (SEVEN
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH
POUNDS ONLY) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-
mail address and will be transferred to you upon
meeting the requirements, statutory
obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize
winnings you are advised to contact our licensed
and accredited claims agent/security company
for SECOND category winners with the
information below: You are also advised to give
the following informations to the Zonal
Asian
Clearance office immediately via email.

CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top
of this mail:
6. Age:

Dr Michael Owen,
ASIAN ZONAL PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
email: espnclaims@aol.com
Phone: +60142390641
Fax: +60326104092

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20
days from today. After this date all unclaimed
funds would be included in the next stake.

Remember to quote your reference information
in all correspondence with your claims agent.
You are to keep all lotto information away from
the general public especially your reference and
ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of
double claims will not be entertained).

Members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this
program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Dr Partha Aich,
Publicity Officer

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