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This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

LOTERIA NACIONAL SPECIAL GLOBAL 2010 PROMOTIONAL DRAW | Fake Lottery Scam

This is an internet scam! DON'T send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Loteria Nacional <info@loterianacional.com> Reply-to:     <quinsyseguroses@aim.com> Subject:     Your email has won 985,950.00 Date:     Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:57:48 +0200 (Thu, Sep 02, 2010 15:57:48) Attn:Beneficiary, We happily announce to you the draw of the Loteria Nacional Special Global 2010 Promotional Draw held in Madrid Spain.Your e-mail address attached to REF No; ESP/62934LN/2010, with Batch No: CH 200 drew the Winning No: 02 10 16 18 27 41, Bonus No: 28 for LN-49 Lotto under the choice of the lottery in the 1st category. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,000 companies and personal e-mails. So your email is your online automatic ticket that qualified you for this draw. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 985,950.00 Euros (nine hundred and eighty five thousand nine hundred and fifty euros) In view of this, your total fund (nine hundred and eighty five thousand nine hundred and fifty euros) would be released to you by following the directives of our Madrid payment officer. He will immediately commence the processing of your payment to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. Therefore, you are required to forward the following details to him to help facilitate the processing of your claims. CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Eric Gomez TEL: +34 634-126-575 EMAIL:quinsyseguroses@aim.com Best Regards Maria Pedro   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

LOTERIA NACIONAL SPECIAL GLOBAL 2010 PROMOTIONAL DRAW | Fake Lottery Scam

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

If you receive one of these scam mails, simply delete it as you would any other spam mails.

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