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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: "HEINEKEN BOTTLING BEER COMPANY" <kaushik@australiansolarpanel.com.au>
Reply-To: hassanabbas_47@live.com
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:04:49 +1100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL HAS WON THE HEINEKEN AWARD 2013
LOTTERY PRIZE OF =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A3750=2C000=2C00_GBP..?=




THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
HEINEKEN BOTTLING BEER COMPANY
274 Broadway Park, South Gyle
Edinburgh EH12 9JZ,
United Kingdom

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of Heineken Annual Promo. The online Heineken Annual Promo
draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an
exclusive list of 12,041 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer (TOPAZ). However,
no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

In the final draw of 2013, Your e-mail address emerged as one of (3)Three
winners in the fourth category attached to HEINEKEN Ticket Number:
0174651237, Serial Number: HIP/8210HA87PF/02, HEINEKEN Reference Number:
HNK /852/EXY you have been approved to claim a cash prize of Seven Hundred
and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling (£750,000,00 GBP ) only.


Your Heineken prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and
will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory
obligations, verification's, validations and satisfactory report. Please
note that your lucky winning number falls within our ASIAN representative
Agent MR.HANSON ABBAS as indicated in your play coupon.

HOW TO GET YOUR PRIZE £750,000,00 GBP ?

To begin the claims processing of your winnings prize; you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited Agent for FOURTH category winners with
the informationbelow: You are required to fill and SUBMIT the following
information's to our Agent in Asia via email below.

NAME:.........................
AGE/SEX:......................
ADDRESS:......................
PHONE:........................
OCCUPATION:...................
COUNTRY:......................
NATIONALITY...................
CITY:.........................

Your Reference and Ticket number at the top of this mail: Please you are
advised to complete the form and send it immediately to our Agent for
prompt collection of your fund.

Contact Person: MR.HANSON ABBAS
================================
Contact Person: MR.HANSON ABBAS
AGENT OFFICER IN ASIA
Email: hassanabbas_47@live.com
================================

you are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case
of double claims will not be entertained).
IMPORTANCE NOTICE!!!

All winnings must be claimed within 18 days from today. After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence with your Paying Bank.
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

Heineken inexperience.com OUR SPONSORS: Note that this program was largely
promoted and sponsored by a group of philanthropist, industrialists from
the internet hardware industry and some other big multinational firms who
wish to be anonymous.

Thank you and accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,

Mr. John Ricketts.
Regional President
HEINEKEN Games / Lottery Coordinator.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification.
Copyright @2013 Heineken Lottery Promo.

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