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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: "UK Lottery Organization" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sea2000@islamabad.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 04:44:55 +1000
Subject: Congratulations you are a winner

If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of 1st September 2009 held in Bangkok-Thailand has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address won you the sweepstakes in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6Million.

Your email address was entered for the online draw on this ticket #: GDJDKEWIOE9 and won on this Lucky #: MSVG363728HS4 You are to contact Mr. Charles Howard on the below email address for quick delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. Know that all winners cheque are certified cashiers and when delivered and received by you, you can cash it in any bank of any country. To enable Mr. Charles Howard ascertain you as the rightful winner and receiver of the $4.6Million cheque, MAKE SURE you include the below listed information in your contact mail to him.

Your country of origin and country of residence/work, complete official names, amount won, free ticket and lucky numbers, date of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings cheque, contact telephone and mobile numbers. OPTIONAL :- [Sex, age, occupation and job title].

Mr. Charles Howard
Email-Address: howardcharles82@live.com

Just in case you are thinking of how you won without entering then know again that this very draw of the UK Lottery Organization in which you have emerged as a winner was a free ticket online email address draws where thousands of email addresses was collected from almost all world wide websites and used for the online draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address came out among the first ten which won you the lottery in the first winnings category and entitles you to claim the cheque of $4,600,000.

From: UK Lottery Organization
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

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