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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: "MEGA LOTTERY PICKER" <xxmagalottery@lotto.es>
Reply-To: s.lottery@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 18:19:00 -0700
Subject: ATTN PICKER (USD$4,500,000.00)

THE MEGA LOTTERY PICKER 2017
LOTTERY SOFTWARE FOR POWERBALL & MEGA MILLIONS
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT
THE MEGA LOTTERY PICKER 2016 DRAW/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
CLAIM FILE NUMBER: YU/VC/0999/171
BATCH NUMBER: SPA/2017-19W
July/05th/2017
AWARD NOTIFICATION
Attention: Stake Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of the MEGA LOTTERY PICKER 2017 RAW held on June/06th/2017; Due to mix up of names and numbers the results were released on July/05th/2017. Your name attached to ticket number: 01890419 with serial number: 9912 drew lucky numbers: 4-13-21-27-36-38 with bonus ball 45 which consequently won in the 3rd category, you have therefore been approved the winner for a lump sum pay out of Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (USD$4,500,000.00) Congratulations! Note: all participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Over 40,000,000, people worldwide.
The program was designed and promoted by EU in collaboration of US & UK Government and some other international lottery institutes that include EUROMILLONES DRAW etc. to promote COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2018. This has been one of the biggest ever played in the world which aimed at changing the lives of millions of people. To enable us proceed with your claims, this information must be kept away from the public to avoid unwarranted abuse of the program or fraudulent claims by unauthorized person(s).
To begin your claims, please contact your claim agent Dr. GOMEZ PEDRO the Foreign Service Manager/Remittance officer of SAFECLAIM SECURITIES on TEL: 011 34 632 867 015 EMAIL: infopedrogomez@consultant.com , for the processing and remittance of your Winnings. Our telephone Lines are opened Monday to Friday 8:30 AM to 4PM, Saturday 9AM TO 2PM, Sundays Closed. Your Local State and City time, Remember to quote your claim file number in all correspondence. And also be informed that 5% of your Winning belongs to Safeclaim Securities and your claim agent, because they are the promotion company.
Note: you are to come to our Madrid Spain office for the processing and signing of your winnng ducuments as to receive your winning price, or you may pay for a home delivery to your home address or an international bank wire transfer to your bank account.
Finally all winning must be claimed not later than 08/06st/2017. After this date, the entire Fund will be returned to the Ministry of Economy as unclaimed funds. Furthermore should there be any change of your personal details or address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN!
NAME:…………………………………………...LAST NAME………………………..........
OCCUPATION………..........………………………………AGE...............................
ADRESSE:………..……………………………………………………………………………………….
TELEPHONE…............................... MOBILE NUMBER…..........................
YOURS SINCERELY
MR. RAUL MARTINEZ
PRESIDENT

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