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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: "Visa USA Inc." <www.visalo900@gmail.com>
Reply-To: www.visaloinc94@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 16:12:58 -0700
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE AWARDED PRIZE OF $6,450,000.00


Visa USA Inc.
2000 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577
USA.

Dear Lucky Winner!

Congratulations, we humbly wish to inform you that you have awarded prize
of $6,450,000.00 (Six Million Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars) only for the yearly lottery promotion which was organized and
sponsored by Visa USA Inc. and Microsoft International for the introduction
of the new visa credit cards gold covers.

The Visa USA Incorporated and Microsoft! team arrange and gather all the
email addresses of people that are active online, among the billion that
subscribed to all email addresses and others, we only select Nine (9)
candidates per annually as our winners through E-mail Balloting System
(EBS) without the candidate been applying. This visa USA Inc. - credit
cards lottery was aimed to help families and communities with the current
global crisis and also aimed to help reduce poverty in the global world.

This visa USA lottery prize must be claimed not later than fifteen (15)
working days from date of draw notification after the draw date in which
prize has won. Stay Connected, any prize not claimed within this period (15
days) will be forfeited.

Contact Person: -------- Mr. Donald Thompson (Administrator)
E-mail Address: --------- www.visainc94@gmail.com
Toll-Free Number: ---------------- +1 (520) 509 0809

Kindly fill the below form and contact your claims administrator via e-mail
/phone for the 48hours delivery of your winner's certificate and your
Co-Branded visa credit cards gold cover of $6,450,000.00 (Six Million Four
Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) only. Find out more, you
are therefore advised to send the following information to the above email
address to facilitate and process your winning prize payment with the
appointed paying bank.

Ticket No #: 51345810
Lucky No#: 233239474922
Reference No#: D7627270008VCL
Registration No#: NL810254207B01

We collect personal information to process your claim, please follow our
guidelines outlined at the body of this message.
Send your Identification numbers/your personal information immediately to
our processing office.

Full Names: ___________________________________________
Contact Address: ______________________________________
Cell Phone: ___________________________________________
Country of Residence: __________________________________

Quote your complete names, winning amount and your direct cell/home phone
number so that they can honor your request.

All winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her settlement center, now
take the next step and claim your prize and say thanks to Visa USA
Incorporated. *This offer is only available for you this season; a valid
ATM Visa card would be sending to you through our paying bank, you will
automatically be paid at instant moment before the end of the 15 days
period. Contact your claims administrator at: www.visaloinc94@gmail.com

Make Yourself at Home. Make the Visa USA Inc. - credit cards your go, power
to you.
Copyright © 1994 - 2015 Visa USA Incorporated - Credit Cards. All rights
reserved.
Terms of Service - Guidelines.

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