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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: "Engr. Peter M. Reed" <bmwlotto@bmw.com>
Reply-To: bmwuniorcb@aim.com
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:39:58 +0100
Subject: BMW AUTOMOBILE PRIZE AWARD!!!

PRIZE AWARD!!! THE INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION DEPARTMENT 22 Isabella RichardStraat, 3271, PE , Den Haag The Netherlands. Reference Number: BMW:2551256003/23 !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!. The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Awareness Promotion Department of the BMW Automobile Company, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this years' BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion (IAP) held in December, 2006, in Netherlands. This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M Sport Saloon car and a prize of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand (550,000) Euros. The car comes with a special BMW Insurance Cover for one whole year, that is, till the next promotion in 2007. It also comes with a one year warranty and FREE repairs at any BMW AUTOMOBILE depot or service station worldwide.. As a winner you are responsible for the legal charges for the no!
tarization. DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE VEHICLE. YEAR: 2006, MODEL: 550i M Sport Saloon The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the world wide web. Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: 5647600545188 and serial number: BMWP/556543450906 was randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners. For you to collect your prizes, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager, Mr.Eddy Van Bakker of our claims department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you assistance and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes. <<http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/home.law>> Claims Manager: Mr. Eddy Van Bakker. BMW Claims Department EM!
AIL: bmwuniorcb@aim.com </ym/Compose?To=bmwuniorcb@a
im.com&YY=57126&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b> PHONE NUMBER: +31 6-1499-0140 FAX NUMBER: +31 847-570-900 VERIFICATION FORM: 1.) FULL NAME: 2.) AGE: 3.) SEX: 4.) ADDRESS: 5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE: 6.) STATE/PROVINCE: 7.) COUNTRY: 8.) PHONE: 9.) OCCUPATION/POSITION: 10.) COMPANY: 11.) EMAIL ADDRESS: 12.) TICKET NUMBER: 13.) SERIAL NUMBER: Congratulations once more, and keep trusting BMW Automobile for top quality automobiles. Engr. Peter M. Reed DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS, INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS, BMW AUTOMOBILE. DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS . THE BMW INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTION COPYRIGHT ©2007. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



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