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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: "Mrs Regina Smith"<microword@award.com>
Reply-To: <micoawardwinner@ozu.es>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:04:56 +0200
Subject: REFERENCE NUMBER: FRE/ESP/E-6587




MICROWORD CORPORATIONS:
CUSTOMER SERVICE, MADRID SPAIN
REFERENCE NUMBER: FRE/ESP/E-6587
BATCH NUMBER: 2009/430/CA
LINK :http://www.microword.com/

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the released results of the Sweepstakes
Promotion organized by Microword Corporations,
in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,
held this September 2009, here in Madrid,Spain.
Your email address emerged as one of the online winning emails, in
the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash
award of 950,000.00 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros Only) and a
Toshiba laptop.

To begin your claim,contact our
Claims Processing Officer via email or by telephone
below.


Danielo Ramos
Tel/ 0034 634 031 494
Email:microwordinfo@ozu.es

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the
Claims Processing Officer to facilitate them and process the RELEASE of
your prize.

1. Full name..............
2. Sex..............
3. Country................
4. State.............
5. Contact Address........
6. Telephone Number.......
7. Marital Status.........
8. Amount Won.............
9. Occupation.............
10.Age....................
11.Zip Code.............
12.Winning email address........

This Email Lottery is sponsored by Microword Corporations and all the
members of MSFT Word Resource Consortium Software
Promotion Companies including Intel Group, Toshiba and Dell Computers.
This internet E-mail draw is held periodically and
is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer
literacy worldwide.
Congratulations!!

Sincerely,
Mrs.Regina Smith
Promotions Manager

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