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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: "Carol Jones" <windept8@mail.mn>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:35:56 -0700
Subject: Your Email Has Won!!


THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC
Division of Yahoo & MSN International
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.



YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION


Dear, Sir/Madam

We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs
held on the 9th of June. 2008 in London. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 56475600545188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky
numbers: 31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of Five
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (£550,000) for the month of
May.19th
2008 lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTORY INTL
INC.
Every month.

Your winning falls in Europe-Asia! Please note that your lucky winning
number
falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe-Asia as
indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (£550,000) would be released to you by any of our
payment
offices in Europe-Asia. Our agent zoned for London paying bank will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him.


YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to Yahoo
mail, Msn, Hotmail, Aol, Altavista, Rediffmail, Indiantimes, Lycos, Gmail,
Aims, Vnsl and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only
five people will be merge for winnings we only select five people every
Month
as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner
applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people
that won for this month..

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim,
Winners
shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Lottery
Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification
after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within
this
period will be forfeited and retrieved.


These numbers are your winning identification numbers that you will
Send to your claims agent; send identification and details of claim to.

Mr:TONNY CLEFF ( REGIONAL CLAIM AGENT )
Email: tcleff@yahoo.co.uk OR
tcleff@mail2winner.com
Tel: +447-035908-029

You are therefore advice to quote the following information to
the Clams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund
without delay:

Serial number 5388/02
Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL
CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES

YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Carol Jones
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

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