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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: "OREGON LOTTERY ADMIN" <admin@mail.cimicgroup.com>
Reply-To: <usoregondept@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:17:59 -0400
Subject: please read carefully and take it genuinely.


OREGON DEPARTMENT
500 Airport Road SE, Salem,
OR 97301
United States of America.

NOTE: If this certified email appear to be found in your SPAM/JUNK Folder, it may be as result of the slow congestion in your network. OLD(Oregon Lottery Department) urge you to treat this letter will genuine reasoning thanks.



Dear Beneficiary :

This is Oreon Lottery Department, We are writing to officialy inform you about our ongoing free award giving prize from Oregon US Lottery Online Promotions. Email belonging to the said beneficiary have been selected as one of our lucky beneficiary/participant to partake in the free giving Online Promotional Award.

Below is our prize descritption and more information about this lottery award given to you from OLD. Please read carefully and note that there are Online Scam message to trick you into sending fees for your prize, we suggest you do not partake in this fraud. Oregon is a free Award and we do not ask for upfront fees, you will only be required to sort the delivery of your prize with the choice of delivery you want.

Prize Description: $1,200,000 USD + A brand New 2016 Mercedes benz E-CLASS for 5 lucky beneficiaries. Congratulations!, you are among the 5 lucky beneficiaries to receive the Brand New Car.

OLD have legitimate proof of the lucky beneficiary from Baghdad that receive a whooping sum of $6,400,000, and due to security reasons he pleaded for his name not to be revealed in the internet. WE have provided you with the link for confirmation and verification.

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/12/mystery_man_from_baghad_wins.html

Frequently Asked Question & Answers(FAQ):



1. Why Am I Getting This Prize: We are aware you must be wondering why you getting this Prize and Car from us. This lottery selection was carried out through a random selection in our computerized Email Selection System from a database of over 1,000,000 Email addresses drawn out from all over the world.

2. But I Did Not Buy Any Tickets Why Am I Being Selected: We Are also aware this question should pop up in your mind. OLD did not just choose you, it is a random slection from 1,000,000 emails and your email appear to be one of the lucky 10 to receive $1,200,000 USD and also popped out among the lucky beneficiary to receive the brand new Car from us. It is just a random selection like playing tickets and it requires no tickets at all.

3. This Must Be Too Good To Be Real: This is the highest of all question that must be popping in your mind, OLD makes lot of money from individuals buying tickets and playing our lottery but we are also getting help from our state Government to Promote our State Lottery and help other needy beneficiaries out there in the world to find something good to do with this money.

4. Is This An Award Or Promotion: This is totally a promotional Lottery Award and it was created only to promote our Lottery and help the needy out there, from the money we make from our lottery organization. In other words we want the world to know about our Lottery and this is not just an award for you.



Oregon Lottery Organization(OLD) have been confirmed by Prof. I. Nelson Rose the eminent professor of law at the Whittier Law School in California that OLD method of providing Online Promotional Free Awards to beneficiaries around the globe is approved and legitimate 100 percent. Our Lottery Organization have also been licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).



HOW TO RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE:



In order to receive your prize from OLD, it has to be processed in our Computer Database and released to you using your choice of delivery. Please contact our agent Eileen benko she in charge of releasing your prize to you, simply reply this email to get in touch with her.

For security reasons its a must for you to contact her using your email %0% and please we require some security check to be sure we are in contact with you directly because we do not support third party transaction, for a successful security check please contact her by replying this email and providing her with the following information's below for security check, this will enable her go straight to the procedure of releasing your prize to you without asking further questions.



Please Complete Security Check Below If You Are The Owner of (%0%)

Full Beneficiary Name:

Beneficiary AGE:

Direct mobile:

Complete Beneficiary Address:

Beneficiary Sex:

Beneficiary Occupation:

Reference Number:



Your Reference Number is (80DF1ZB), please include your reference number why replying this email to get in touch directly with her. The reference number will be put into our database to cross-check if the information you put above is correct.



Congratulations once again for your time and willingness in receiving your prize from OLD.

Sincerely,Anderson Peter

Oregon Online Lottery Award Admin,

Oregon Lottery Department

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