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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: "Guus Mayer." <delottonls@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: dimaxcaps@aol.com
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:11:13 -0500
Subject: Call For Winning Confirmation.




De Lotto NL Company.
Reference Number: FRN/17100/DENL
Batch Number: DL/13212/039ZX.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Promotional Lottery
programs that was held on the 13th day of March 2010 and release today the
15th Day of the same March and that your electronic mail address which we
extracted from the Internet Data Base and attach to the batch number
DL/13212/039ZX, has won you a prize money of 1,925,000 euro (One Million,
Nine Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Euros) in cash as credited to our
payment file Ref. number: FRN/17100/DENL. As a precautionary measure, we
kindly ask that you keep your winning information private until your claim
has been processed and your prize money remitted to you as this is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program. All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 400,000 companies and 300,000,000 individual email
addresses from all over the world. This lottery program was promoted and
sponsored by a consortium of software companies in Different Countries to
increase the awareness of their software packages. We hope with part of
your winning you will be able to contribute to Charity Project in your
Country. You can begin the claim processes of your winning funds by
contacting our funds release department through the below stated details.

De Lotto Payment Center.
Tel: +31-619-252510
Fax: +31-847-148046
Email: dimaxcaps@aol.com

Remember all winnings must be claimed not later than the 30th day of March
2010. Please note that in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications do remember to provide them with the following details.

1). Full Names (As prefer to be Written on your Winning Documents):
2). Residential Address:
3). Occupation:
4). Phone/Fax Numbers:
5). Nationality:
6). Reference Number:
7). Winning Email Address:

Congratulations and thanks for being part of our Lottery program.

Sincerely yours,
Guus Mayer. (Programs Coordinator)
For: Lotto NL.
Lotto is een onderdeel van De Lotto.
Copyright(c) 2009 by De Lotto, the Netherlands.
Website: http://lotto.nl

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