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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: "BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY LTD UK" <info@mail.com>
Reply-To: bmw-2012-ticket1101@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 02:46:30 -1200
Subject: Batch: BMW838QPW

BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY LTD, UK.
22 Garden Close, Stamford
Lice PE92yP, London.
United Kingdom.

Dear Email-User

Ref NO: CDE/893-0932QP/BMW,
Batch: BMW838QPW

BMW 2012 ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our
winners selected in this year 2012 Anniversary. This promotion was set-up
to encourage the active users of email search engine and the Internet
ancillary services.Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will
continue to be active and patronage to the BMW products. BMW is
now among the biggest Automobile production company worldwide and in an effort to
make sure that it remains the most widely used products in the world, we ran an
on-line e-mail beta test which your email address won One Million Great British
Pounds Sterling (GBP 1,000,000, 00).

We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.A winning cheque
will be issued in your name by BMW Promotion Award Team, You have
therefore won the entire sum of One Million Great British
Pounds Sterling (GBP 1,000,000, 00) and also a certificate of prize
claims will be sent along side your winning cheque.

CONTACT CLAIMS OFFICE:
BMW Promotion Board
AGENT NAME : MR ROBERT DRAME.
EMAIL ADDRESS: bmw-2012-ticket1101@hotmail.com
TELL: +447014219365

Do e-mail the Claims office at once with the Verification and Funds
release form below for validation of your prize and to avoid unnecessary
delay.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
==================
1: Name:
2: Address:
3: Age:
4: Sex:
5: Mobile Num:
6: Occupation:
7: State:
8: Country:
==================

The BMW Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double
claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties
about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this,
these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The
BMW Automobile Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that
any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the
canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double
claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the
informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly
advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim
your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the BMW Automobile interactive
Lotteries Board Commission.

Sign,
Mrs Rhoda Richardson.
Online Promo Co-ordinator/Announcer.
Bmw Automobile Company Uk.

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