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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: uknetpromo@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:33:59 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LOTTERY=20WINNER?=

UK National Lottery,
2 Lansdowne Row,
Berkeley Square,
London, W1J 6H,
United Kingdom
Daily Draw Further results
Winning Date: 07/10/2006.

http://www.national-lottery.com/resultsnationalhistorical.asp

Ref: UK/776090X2/23
Batch: 013/05/8394369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
UK National Lottery program held on 1st October 2006. Your e-mail address
attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02 drew
the Winning Numbers: 04, 13, 23, 24, 26, 36, (Bonus No.45), which subsequently
won you the lotteries in the 2nd category i.e. match 3 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $500.000.00 (Five
Hundred Thousand Unites State Dollars) in cash credited to file. This is
from a total cash prize of $10,350,000.00, shared amongst the Winners with
different amount won in this category i.e. Match 3 plus bonus. All participants
for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations,
and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.


Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative
Office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Unites State Dollars) will be released
to you by any of our payment offices in your country.

Our Asian agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact her for security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim
is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem
fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.



***********************************************************
Barrister David Green.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department, OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT.
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM ASIA ZONE CHINA
Tel Phone: +861-591-869-0071
E-mail :davidgreen@uknationalotery.com
E-mail :bettyclay@uknationalotery.com

***********************************************************

Endeavour to email him your full names, winning numbers, email address,
telephone and fax numbers immediately.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
Betty Clay (Mrs.)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
General enquiry on info@uknationalotery.com
www.national-lottery.com






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