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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: "Axe Security SL" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jonesramos@Safe-mail.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:37:20 +0100
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

QATAR National Asia & Euro Oil Lottery Award
Nº61 Qatar Convention Center Doha Qatar.
Ref NO: ESQA 9590 OG 0612
Batch NO: 563881545-QA/06/07/IPD

Attn: Lucky Winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of our Lottery International Programs.The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 35,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were
sold.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref .Number: ESQA 9590 OG 0612, Batch Number: 563881545-QA/2011 and Ticket Number: QNLA 3502 /8707-01
You are therefore to receive a cash prize of € 915, 810,00 (NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND,EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS, ONLY) from the total payout. CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address
and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below: E-mail Address: { jonesramos@Safe-mail.net }

REG EURO LOTTO CLIAM SECTION-
COMPANY NAME: Axe Security SL. .
Name: Mr, Jones Ramos
Phone: +34-603-193-800
Email: { jonesramos@Safe-mail.net }

You are advice to provide your contact with the following information:

1. NAME IN FULL:
2. ADDRESS:
3. NATIONALITY:
4. AGE:
5. SEX
6. OCCUPATION:
7. PHONE/FAX:
8. COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
9. EMAIL ADDRESS:
10.ACCOUNT NUMBER:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 21 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all Lotto information confidential, 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. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our Agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.Yours Faithfully,


.
Lottery Co-ordinator.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
QATAR National Asia & Euro Oil Lottery Award
----------------------------------------Alrightreserve @2011 version-----------------------------------

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