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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: "Service internet freebox" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <clqi,sunit2secretqriqs:co,>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:55:52 +0200
Subject: DEAR FACEBOOK USER

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
FACEBOOK USERS ANNIVERSARY PROMOTION
BATCH:18/103/HME
WINNING CODE:FB8801

We happily announce to you the draw of the FACEBOOK ONLINE USER SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION, at our Lotto Draw Headquarters London, United Kingdom organized by FACEBOOK INC. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of £530,000.00GBP (Five Hundred And Thirty Thousand Great British Pounds)

FACEBOOK Promo Inc. arranged and gathered some of all the E-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to all E-mail Providers most especially Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail, we only selected Twenty (20) candidates per-annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of our lucky winners. Our winners includes only subscribers to TAGGED.

For claims contact the claims office email :
claimsunit@secretarias.com
Promo Manager: Dr. Felix Grant
Tele: +44-703-596-0213

All reply should be sent to the Promotion Office Email: claimsunit@secretarias.com

Dr. Felix Grant
PROMOTION OFFICER
+44-703-596-0213
Facebook Inc © 2011.

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