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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: claims office <rick1013@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 04:57:49 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION



THE AWARDS WINNERS EXCHANGE ONLINE LOTTERY NOTIFICATION

FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS: 11 ROSS-ON-WYE, HEREFORDSHIRE, HR9 9WB UNITED KINGDOM.

REFERENCE Nº: EGS/2251256003/0

BATCH Nº: 14/0017/1PD


AWARD NOTIFICATION

The Awards Winners Exchange Lottery International wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery program held today, your email account was selected as a winner of Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds Only. (£550,000.00).

This result is now made available to you and your email address attached to Ticket # 044595 in the Category A bonus ball 02, 03, 21, 24, 38, 44, and bonus ball 47. Participants in the draws were randomly selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail addresses of Individuals/Companies from Europe, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia, Canada, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.

We advice that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. For the release of your winnings; kindly contact your claims agent with the following details to expedite the processing of your prize winning.

Full Name,
Address,
Draw Date
Country of Residence,
Tel and Fax number,
Occupation,
Age,

To begin your Claim, please contact our Regional Payments/Claims office immediately with the following email address; helpdesklotto2007@yahoo.co.uk, helpdesklotto@yahoo.co.uk or on telephone numbers; 44 703 9956682. All winning must be claimed not later than 14 days from the date of receipt of this email. After this date all prize winning will treated as Unclaimed. Note in order to avoid unnecessary delays; remember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in all correspondence.

Congratulations once again from all our members of staff and thank you for being part of our special quarterly promotional Lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Rick A Copeland
(Informations and Promotion Manager)
_________________________________________________________________
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