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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: EuroMillions Lottery <cmercado@pegafan.com>
Reply-To: euromillion-promo@qq.com
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 23:08:14 -0500
Subject: draw





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Official EuroMillions Lottery Montly Draw (693)



Congratulations!! Your E-mail ID has Won you £4,166,666.00 GBP in the

on-going EuroMillions Lottery Program. No Ticket Bought. Your Email Address

was selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 250,000.000

company Email Addresses, and 300,000,000 individual Email Addresses from

Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Europe, Asia and

Africa as part of International Promotions Program. This promo is the 1st

of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. Your Email Address was

attached to a Raffle number "Lucky Stars 0413303447". Your Batch Number

05-442/2014/ and Reference EUM7800/Jackpot/693/14. For claims Contact us

via email or telephone.



Mr. Sthrom Mettzer

Email: euromillion-promo@qq.com

(Online Promo Co-ordinator)

Tel: +(44)708-764-9609,

Fax: +(44)843 562 2684, 872 115 5636

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