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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: "EUROMILLONE DRAW" <euro.lotto@consultant.com>
Reply-To: seguro-espainia@email.com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 00:17:06 +0900
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION




FROM: THE DESK OF MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION OF INCOME ALLOCATION
REFERENCE NUMBER: LUB/107/7760/AKW
CLAIM FILE NUMBER: BC/05/839527139/09
BATCH NUMBER: BC1258209.
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION
AVDA. CARLOS GONZALEZ Nº 17 PLTA
28004 MADRID, SPAIN
euro.lotto@consultant.com



Attention Beneficiary

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE

This is to inform you of the release of the Spanish-International Lottery
awards draw in Spain and United Kingdom, held on 27th JANUARY 2015 and was
released on 4th FEBUARY 2015. You are therefore been approved a lump sum
payment of €1,098,160.43 (One Million, Ninety Eight Thousand, One Hundred
and Sixty Forty Three Cent Euro).In the ongoing INTERNATIONAL LA PRIMITIVA
LOTTERY PROMOTIONS PROGRAM CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Your fund is now deposited in a security company with your prize money
insured in your name. Due to mix up of
some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice
until your claim has been processed and money remitted to your account as
this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
orunwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants as it has
happened in the past.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot systems /
shopping ticket-foils and traveling ticket-foils drawn from 25,000 Company
names and individual names from Asia, Australia, Newzealand, Europe,
America, Africa and North America as part of our annual-international
promotional programs. We hope you’re lucky name will draw a bigger cash
prize in the subsequent programs.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent, MR MEGUEL TORRES,
foreign operations manager of SEGURO ESPAINIA S.L on
Tel: + 34-603-174-428 / Fax: + 34 -917-903-659 , Email:
seguro-espainia@email.com for registration and processing of your winning
prize money to designated
account of your choice. Complete the attached payment processing form and
return by E-mail or by Fax to your claim agent . Remember, all prize money
must be claimed not later than four weeks from the date of this notice.
After this date, this fund will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA
AND HACIENDA as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complication, please
remember to quote your telephone numbers in every correspondence with your
agent or us. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do
inform your claim agent as soon as possible. Congratulation once again
from all members of our staff and thank you for being part of our
International phone numbers promotion program. We wish you continued good
fortunes.

Please fill the form with capital letters and return back to SEGURO
ESPAINIA S.L E-mail: seguro-espainia@email.com

NAME:------------------------------------------

DATE OF BIRTH:---------------------------------

PLACE OF BIRTH:--------------------------------

TELEPHONE:--------------------------------------

MOBILE:-----------------------------------------

FAX:--------------------------------------------

AMOUNT WON:-------------------------------------

ADDRESS:----------------------------------------

POSTAL / ZIP CODE:------------------------------

E-MAIL:------------------------------------------

CITY:--------------------------------------------

STATE:-------------------------------------------

OCCUPATION:--------------------------------------

NATIONALITY:----------------------------- --------

REFERENCE FILE Nº:--------------------------------

SECURITY BATCH Nº:--------------------------------

SEX:----------------------------------------------



PAYMENT OPTIONS : a/ BANK TRANSFER b/ CERTIFIED CHEQUE

Bank Information ( ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE PAID BY BANK TRANSFER )



BANK NAME:---------------------------------------------------------


ACCOUNT NUMBER / IBAN :-------------------------------------------

SWIFT CODE:--------------------------------------------------------


BANK ADDRESS:------------------------------------------------------

STATE:---------------------------------

POSTAL/ZIP CODE:---------------------------------


Yours Sincerely,
JOSE MIGUEL FERNANDEZ
(DIRECTOR DE LA PROGRAM)

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