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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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Fraud email example:

From: beckmann-linda@handbag.com
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:11:39 +0100
Subject: AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS. WINNING NOTICE FOR
CATEGORY \"B\" WINNER
Dear Lucky Winner,
RE:BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final
draws of De Lotto Netherlands International Lottery programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100,000
e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated random computer search from the internet from various continents
of the world.No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot,your
e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category \"B\" with the
following:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2005
Ticket Number: 54866235

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
500,000.00.( FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS) each from the total payout of ?1,500,000.00
Euro in category "B". Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory
obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"B\" winners
with the information below:

Mr.Nelson Bill
Financial Director,
Netherlands Development Finance Company,
1104 kE Poort Bijlmerplein
Amsterdam,Netherlands.
E-mail:phconsultancey@netscape.net

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 30 days.After this date
all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto
information away from the general public especially
your reference and ticket numbers.(This is important as a case of double
claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically
not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Linda Backmann
Games/Lottery Co-ordinator.
De Lotto Netherlands International
delottery-draw@winning.com
www.delotto.nl

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