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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: PAYMENT OFFICE FREE LOTTO <claimoffice.payment@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:14:25 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CONGRATULATION YOU CAN NOW RECEIVE YOUR WINNING WITHOUT ANY PAYMENT.


Attention Credit Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that this AUTHORITY has precedence over your WINNING Fund as such is totally in control of all winners seeking for immediate settlement in various Security Companies and Trust Clearing and courier company Houses across Europe, Asia,Australia, African, north and south America Continents due to various turn-around plights and complaints of winning fund been hold for long by some dubious Officials of this company who have just being brought to face the law by this Honourable office.

The topmost confidence of effecting immediate discharge of this tax was reposed in this Body praying that adequate measures will be taken by this Body as to forestall Fund diversion, Fraudulent practises,Graft and Financial crimes as perpetrated by some unscrupulous individual(s) and / or office(s).

Furthermore, we have today withdrawn your Fund payment in order to avert any misdirection of the same. In pursuance to the same project, you are hereby required to co-operate with this Body as it's the only authorised office that will guarantee the easiest and safest release of your Fund in less than 72 hours through the help of a reputable security firm (GLOBAL SECURITY AND TRUST COMPANY)

To this effect, you are required to reconfirm and authenticate your given particulars below for certainty and onward processing and release of you funds as we may not be held liable for any wrong payment.

Most assuredly, we must not hesitate in discharging our fund payment obligations to you reliving this as a way of preventing you from further occurrence of illegal taxation's. Remember that this Body still reserves the rights to withhold, cross-examine, determine and / or effect all winning fund settlements in the event of any bureaucratic hurdles.

PRECAUTION:
Be advised that your furtherance of this payment negotiations withany person or group of persons, office(s) is tantamount to a total fund payment irregularity, thus, it shall be to your own discredit and peril,as FREE LOTTO do not and will not charge for the processing of you winning fund.if you have made any payment to any individual(s) and /or office(s) You will be refunded along side your winning funds only if you provide evidence of payment and information of the individual(s) and / or office(s) funds was paid to.and if you dont have moeny to pay for the C.O.T our office will make arrangement for that . A prompt attention to this email,
shall be in your own advantage. I has be calling you as soon as your response is received with your full information and phone number.

This office is staunch in action at 24 hrs. service. Once more,
accept our Congratulations !

Yours Sincerely
MR Brown Anderson
Director,(Security and fund release dept).
+16144419528

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