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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: "iPAD 4 PROMOTION" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <padservice@live.it>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10.59.37 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION

IPAD 4 Tablet Micro Devices S.P.A.
Dpt 1170.
Via Montefeltro, 9 Milano, MI 20156, Italy

Attention: Lucky Winner,

We congratulate you, being one of the lucky winners of the result of the New IPAD 4 Micro list Email Award held on the 18th of October 2011 in Italy. Your email address emerged as one of the 10 lucky winners selected electronically by our Electronic iPad Tablet Wheel.
The total sum of 2, 0000.00 (Two Million Euro) has been accredited to your email address file number. Winners were selected randomly from our list of millions of email addresses around Europe, Asia, some parts of South 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, Galaxy Samsung and other International software and computers manufacturing Companies. Your email address number in our file was chosen in the European Galaxy 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 CITI BANK ITALI

Your winning details are as follows:
Batch No: 20IT999
Email File No: 22000
Coupon No: ITR29009
Amount Won: 2,0000,00 (Two Million Euro)
Full Name:
Address:
Phone Number
Age:
Occupation:

Contact CITI BANK ITALIA immediately for verification, processing and transferring of your price money to you in your country. Remember to
Forward them your winning details for confirmation. Contact CITI-BANK with the below Contact info:
CITI-BANK-ITALIA S.P.A
CONTACT PERSON .
JAN FRANCO LUCA
TEL: +39 327 182 1278
Address: Via Massaua, 420145 Milano.
Mail: padservice@live.it

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