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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: "Helena Van Bonne (Mrs)." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lotterywinsprocessingdept@aol.nl>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:39:47 +0100
Subject: Your Winning Ref No: NHK/WO5-9/1986 !!!

Lucky Day Lottery NL
Promotional/Sweepstakes Office
Laan van Hoornwijck 55
2289 DG Rijswijk
KvK: 41151075
The Netherlands.

Dear. Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you that your email address has won 950.000:00 Euro (Nine hundred and Fifty thousand Euro Only) in the Netherlands Lucky Day Lottery Sweepstakes promotional program, conducted March 18th, 2012, and the results were release today March 20th, 2012. This is a free promotional program sponsored by consortium of software companies, which means Lottery tickets were not sold.

For more information's/procedure of your winning claim, you are advice to contact our processing department with the contact information below, provide them with your winning details below and your winning email address.

Bert Hendriks (Mr).
Lottery Processing Dept.
Tel: +31 684 402 774
Fax: +31 847 195 169
Email: lotterywinsprocessingdept@aol.nl

Your Winning Details.
Ref No: NHK/WO5-9/1986.
Batch No: 286/KB001900.
E-Ticket No: QQM-7509-267-790.
Serial No: XZT/6059/1938.

NOTE: Please be warned, your winning and its entire information are to be kept strictly confidential, this is to avoid previous bad experience this program has suffered, such as abuse of this program by other internet user who use the name of this company for unscrupulous activities and double claiming of winning entitlement because of insecurity of winning information on the part of beneficiaries. Always call to ensure you are dealing with the right office.

Sincerely,
Helena Van Bonne (Mrs).
Sweepstakes Coordinator.

Visit our website at: http://www.luckyday.nl
Lotto is een onderdeel van De Lotto. Copyright(c) 2007 by De Lotto, the Netherlands.
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