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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: promotionproject@handbag.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:14:31 -0700
Subject: FOUNDATION WARD NOTIFICATION

FOUNDATION WARD NOTIFICATION

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
BRANCH OFFICE
BIMERDREF 265 QZ AMSTERDAM
NORDHOLLAND ,NETHERLANDS
AND
C.P.P FOUNDATION
www.freelotto.com



Dear Winner,

Taking judicial notice of the official publication of an award of 650.000
USD ( Six Hundred And Fifty Thousand United State Dollar)made in your favor
on the 29th of July 2005 by the FREELOTTERY corporation in conjunction with
the foundation for the promotion of software products CPP, you are therefore
advised to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this
message for more information concerning the verification, processing and
subsequent payment of this award to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released today the
30th of July 2005 with the following particulars attached to it.

(I) award numbers: FL 22/15409
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622NL
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/0534/30/05

Please contact our under listed processing agents within five days upon receipt
of this information to immediately claim your award . You are required to
mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence addressed
to the processing agents

Mr. BEN HOWARD
Chief Financial Director

MR. PATRICK VALERE
PUBLIC RELATIONS

TEL: 0031 619 112 767

EMAIL: bernnardh@netscape.net




Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

ELIZABERTH SASKIA
Promotions Manager
The Free Lottery company
European promotions.

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The Free Lotto Awards is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion
companies. the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, and other international
companies. The free lotto internet draw is held periodically and is so organized
to encourage the use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.
We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more
than 150 countries worldwide.
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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and take
your chance and become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on a daily
basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto service. Who says it is
impossible??? millions have seen this fortune come true with free lotto.
Free Lotto's Automatic WIN Ticket service is a great way to make sure that
you NEVER MISS YOUR CHANCE TO WIN OVER $11,000,000.00 every day! Simply wait
for your turn to be picked by our computer ballot system (or the quick pick
option) in each of the six daily Free Lotto games and we'll automatically
play your numbers for you every day.

CONGRATULATIONS




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