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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: "Netherland Lottery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ginobian4@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:19:12 +0200
Subject: Hello

The winner If you are the rightful owner of this email then you can proudly rejoice and celebrate the recent released result of Netherlands Lottery online winnings draws of october 2014 held in Amsterdam Netherland with the influence of European union Your email was attached to Free Ticket Number: NLP-8811047833 and won on Lucky Number: 6012-1022-313-1985. This legitimately entitles you to claim the sum of US$5,500,000.00 (Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) as a FIRST CATEGORY winnings prize. Are you thinking of how you won this lottery without entering for it or purchasing a ticket? Note the following: The Netherland Lottery draws of OCTOBER 2014 in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket & online sweepstakes. Thousands of e-mail addresses including yours was collected globally from several websites and used for the OCTOBER 2014 online draws. At the time of winners selection, your email was among the first ten which automatically won the lotto in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the sum of US$5.5Million without any hassles. You should address your e-mail to our appointed claims agent Mr David Jones he will give you guidelines on how to claim your lottery prize of (US$5.5Million Dollars) via our available paying bank methods. to begin your claim contact Mr: David Jones Email :david11nl@aol.com Phone:+31686167468 Claims must be made within Two week of this notification. Congratulations! From: Mr. Johnson Han Notification/online Co-Coordinator Netherlands Lottery Organization.


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