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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: "EL GORDO LOTO INTERNATIONAL" <elgodonloto@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lotointernational.elgordo@yandex.com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:08:06 +0300
Subject: FINAL AWARD WINNING PRIZE NOTIFICATION


Attention: Lucky Winner.

FINAL AWARD WINNING PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you, the beneficiary whose name is on this mail ,=
about the release of the awaited
delayed result, of our international promotion sweepstakes program held on =
20/01/16. The results were released on
the 22/ 07/16. This program was designed to promote and encourage internati=
onal participation in our high stake new
year Spanish Sweepstakes.(INTERNATIONAL LOTTO COMMISSION) Names entered in =
the program were
presented by ANDALUCIA VISTA S.A in conjunction with a group of philanthrop=
ist, humanitarian organisations,
and also with the help of chambers of commerce and industries and countries=
with high commission in Spain.Using
a computer balloting selection system from all names submitted for the prog=
ram, your name with ticket number 76494
won in the 3 category, and was awarded the sum of =E2=82=AC815,810.00 (EIGH=
T HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN EUROS ONLY),

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