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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: "Stichting de Nationale Sporttotalisator" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <informationwon@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:52:43 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOUR EMAIL WON!!

Stichting de Nationale Sporttotalisator.
Rijswijk, The Netherlands.
Email Reference Code: SdNS-@webdirectory.
Payment Winning Numbers: 4,6,11,22,26,30.
File Serial Numbers: SdNS-7PO12F/12
 
 
Congratulations as we write to inform you of the successful conduct of our new Internet Sweepstakes Program of today Saturday the 11th of February, 2012. Your email address which we extracted from the Internet Search Pages entered into this free program with a File Serial Number: SdNS-7PO12F/12, has won you a giveaway cash prize of €4,715,000 Only (Four Million, Seven Hundred & Fifteen Thousand Euro Only). This Certified winning fund is been given out to you here as a Goodwill Gesture and part of our quarterly donations back to the society from the profit of our normal Sweepstakes Program were ticket were sold. You have to claim the fund within 28 days of the receipt of this email, messages. Below are the requested details which you have to send to our payment department below email addresses for the release of the Sweepstakes funds to you.
 
 
1). Complete Full Names:
2). Residential Address:
3). Telephone/Fax Numbers:
4). Present Occupation:
 
 
They await your urgent response with the requested details as we also wish to inform you that you must present the 4 (four) requested details to our below email address before our payment department will be able to process your request. This message was sent from a notification address and we do not check it regularly hence we will advice you to use the below stated email addresses in writing our payment department.
 
 
Sincerely yours,
Van Nelle.
Stichting de Nationale Sporttotalisator
Rijswijk, the Netherlands.
Tel: +31-649-581-843
Fax: +318-471-259-93
Copyright (c) 2012, KvK: 41151075.
 

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