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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: "CHEVROLET MOTORS WORLDWIDE LTD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <unit010213claimsdept@live.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 03:45:29 -0800
Subject: WINNING NO. CHEVROLET-UK-CP8XC098372N

CHEVROLET MOTORS WORLDWIDE LTD.
CHEVROLET Programs &amp; Events Department
CHEVROLET Motors
P.O. Box 850
Manchester
MR2 8GD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are officially announcing to you the result of CHEVROLET Motors
Email Lottery Promotion held on the 5TH NOVEMBER 2013 as part of our
programs to Launch our new

office that was commissioned in Manchester United Kingdom. Your email
was attached to ticket number CHEVROLET-UK-CP8XC098372N with draw number
Z93BL which

consequently won you in the 2nd category prize, your email address was
extracted from our electronic email extraction system which randomly
selected Eleven (11) Lucky

Winners of which your email address was among one of the lucky winner.
You are therefore been approved for a payout of a total sum 2,500, 000
GBP And a brand new

CHEVROLET CAPTIVA CAR (TWO MILLION &amp; FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS
&amp; A CHEVROLET CAPTIVA CAR).

Here is a picture of your winning
CAR.http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/front_website/gallery.php?id=218818

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We also advise that you keep your winning information very
confidentials our security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this

program by some individuals. The selection process was carried our
through our computerized Email Selection System(ESS) which selects email
from a database of over

1,000, 000 email address was drawn from all over the continents of the
World. This promotions being the first of its kind will now take place
annually and we hope you

will also take part in our next year Five Million Pounds Sterling
International Lottery Game. To file your claim, you are to contact our
Customer Service Unit

authorized to conduct the necessary Verification to enable you receive
your Cash Prize and your CHEVROLET CAPTIVA CAR, (You will receive more
email upon

acknowledgement of this email).

Customer Service Unit
CONTRACTED AGENCY: Associates CONTACT PERSON
(Dr.) M. DANNY ADAMS Claims Agent
Tel: +44-
FAX: +1 212 298 8440
With these details: -
E-mail: unit010213claimsdept@live.com
20 Queens land Road, London
SW2 3JB ENGLAND. U.K

You can call any of the claims agents assigned for your claims, or
sendan email to them, you are to provide to your agents the below
underlisted information as soon as

possible:

1. NAME IN FULL:
2. ADDRESS (IN FULL):
3. NATIONALITY:
4. AGE:
5. SEX:
6. OCCUPATION (POSITION HELD):
7. HOME PHONE &amp; MOBILE NUMBER:
8. Where would you prefer your car to be shipped? Home Or Office
Address?
9. Most importantly scan copy of your Passport or any other I D Cards :

This program is promoted and sponsored by Frontline group and CHEVROLET
Worldwide; we intend to use this medium to help individuals generate
fortunes, which would

encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more
opportunities and assisting with humanitarian Concerns within their
immediate environment. All

winning must be claimed not later than one Week of Acknowledgment.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to CHEVROLET Motors
Treasury as Unclaimed.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform us as soon
as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff.

N.B: Anybody under the age of 16 is not eligible to participate in
thisprogram.

Yours in service,
Mrs. Sarah Chow
(Programs &amp; Events).</pre

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