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419 Scam Example: "Asian Pacific Promotion / Pacific Promotions lottery"
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"Asian Pacific Promotion / Pacific Promotions Bangkok Thailand / Pacific Promotions Organization / ASIAN PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS" are various labels used for a lottery scam run by scammers based in Thailand, probably a group of Nigerians. No such lottery actually exists. The whole point is to trick would-be winners into sending money to the scammers.
Basically any "email lottery" involving a "computer ballot system" that supposedy drew your address from a large pool email addresses is a 419 scam. Fake lottery scams operate out of West Africa, South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and other European countries as well as Thailand, Indonesia and China. It is currently the biggest type of advance fee fraud run by mostly Nigerian gangs.
If you reply to such fraudulent mails, you will never receive any money. Instead the scammers are after your money. If you are not sure about any such emails, check them with the following link or post them in the forum of Scamwarners.com.
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Scam example:
PACIFIC PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE/AWARD
DATE: 15TH MARCH 2007
BATCH: EGS/33504992/03: REFERENCE: 17/9918/IPD
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
PACIFIC PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE/AWARD
BANGKOK THAILAND.
ATTENTION: CONGRATULATIONS!
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the PACIFIC PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE DRAW PROGRAMS held on the 6th of Januray, 2007, in BANGKOK THAILAND and the result were released on 15th March 2007. Your e-mail ID attached to ticket number 065-12855077-09 with serial number 77390 that drew the lucky number of 05-05-17-18-28-38, which consequently won the lottery in the 5th category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of $900, 000. ( Nine Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ).
CONGRATULATIONS!!
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 25.000 Company and 40.000 individual email addresses and names from Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe North and South America, Oceania and around the world. To begin your lottery claims, please contact our Co-ordinator as follows,
Name: Mr Albert Clift
Tel: +66-2-6818114
Email: coordinator_aclift@walla.com
Due to mix up of some numbers and addresses, we ask that you keep your Winning information confidential until your claims have been processed. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participant. Please, note that all winnings must be claimed not later than 5th April, 2007. After this date all unclaimed winnings will be null and void. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our Co-ordinator as soon as possible. Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Sincerely ,
Mr Frederick Thomas.
Vice President,
Pacific Promotions Bangkok Thailand.
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