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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: "stephen wright" <stephen_wright02@msn.com>
Reply-To: law_ann_lee200@mail2world.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:49:09 +0000
Subject: Congratulations on your winning.



Attn:Sir/Madam,

Congratulations on your winning.

All participants were selected randomly from World wide Web site through
computer ballot system extracted from over 100,000 companies and
individuals.This promotion takes place annually.

Your email address attached to ticket number :56475600545 188 with serial
number :5388/02 drew the lucky numbers 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently
won you the lottery in the second category. You have therefore won us $2.5m
dollars from the lottery. You are required to forward the following details
to help facilitate the processing of your certificate and the release of
your winnings.

1. Full names.
2. Residential address.
3. Phone number.
4. A scanned identification of yourself sent via email
5. Occupation.

You are adviced to forward these informations as soon as possible to enable
us attend to your file.Please note that your funds have been depositeds
afely in our offshore payment office in europe and your information will be
forwarded to them before they can release your winnings.You are also to
choose the mode which you want to collect your funds:

PAYMENT OPTIONS.
i. Travel down to personally collect it from our agent.
ii.This is for those who can not travel we will process the winnings
and then package and send it via courier service but you will
have to PAY FOR THE SERVICES .

You are to contact
MR.ANN LEE.
Fudicial Agent
44-7040-1066-45
law_ann_lee200@mail2world.com
Once again, congratulations.

Yours sincerely,
MRS Stephanie Wright PROTOCOLS AND GRAND (FOR OVERSEAS LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL.)
NB:PLEASE INDICATE A PAYMENT OPTION


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