The e-mail here 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 one on this page or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, I can 100% guarantee that YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

This is an internet scam! Do NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     SPANISH INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM 2008 <europenotice@terra.es> Reply-To:     auraseg@gmail.com Subject:     INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION Date:     Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:11:40 +0200 (13:11 EDT) INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT Plaza Romano N°19 Planta 5, 28011, MADRID, SPAIN. Dear Sir/ Madam, We are happy to inform you that your email address have emerged winner of €920,810.00 only (Nine Hundred And Twenty Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ten Euros Only) in SPANISH INTERNATIONAL E-MAIL AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM 2008.     The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web.  Your email address is attached to Ref No: EU/0999/171MPL & Batch No: EU1983-022EM; Serial No: 6594; and PROMOTION DATE: 4th of September, 2008.   Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially File in for their claim within the given time frame. To begin your claim, you are to forward this message to our accredited claim agent Including your Contact information's (Full Names, Telephone numbers, Age, Sex, Marital Status, Occupation, Country and Address).   AURA SEGUROS S.A CALLE CASTELLANA 10, 28019, MADRID- SPAIN. CONTACT: Mr. Mario Albert TEL: +34693532540 / FAX: +34911011205                      EMAIL:  auraagency@luckymail.com           Or auraseg@gmail.com Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the gaming board authority which includes your statutory obligations.      Best Regards, MR. ELLEN MARGALVAREZ (VICE PRESIDENT). Madrid, 13th Sept 2008     Note: All Won Prize must be claimed/ cleared not later than 31st of September, 2008. After this date, all other winnings will consider as UNCLAIMED and returned to ministerio de Economia Y Hacienda   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people or legitimate organizations mentioned in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! The scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help them convince you that they are genuine. Whatever these scammers tell you, DON'T believe a word of it!!!

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419 BAITER headquarters.

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, cheap 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.

To see what this site is really all about, visit The Games section.

NOTE TO SPAMMERS: My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good but it isn't perfect. Occasionally a regular spam e-mail may get mistakenly published as a 419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish to have your spam e-mail published on this website, the solution is simple. Don't send me spam.