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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: "Yahoo! MSN Hotmail Inc." <jaycullen1@bellsouth.net>
Reply-To: eventmanagerprizeunit@winning.com
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:29:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: =?utf-8?B?Q29uZ3JhdHVsYXRpb25zISEgWW91IFdvbiDCozEsMDAwLCAwMDAuMDAgR0JQ?=
=?utf-8?B?ISBZYWhvbyxNU04sSG90bWFpbCBBd2FyZC4=?=











Division of Yahoo MSN Hotmail Internet Lottery          

                                                     Payment No. GB30922
                                                     Date: 10th October,2009


PAY THE AMOUNT OF: EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS*£1,000,000.00*
                                   AUTHORIZED BY YAHOO MAIL INC.
 
                                               CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
                                           YOU WON £1,000,000.00 POUNDS! 
 
  YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF THE TOP 12 LUCKY WINNERS!!!

 
NOTE: THIS IS NOT A SPAM MAIL!! 


 
Reply to this email address: eventmanagerprizeunit@winning.com    
 
 
Attention: Valuable Winner,

Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as among the 12 top winner’s accounts that will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (One Million Great British Pounds (£1,000,000.00 GBP) for the month of OCTOBER, 2009 lottery prize promotions which is organized by Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail every month.
                                          
Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail collects all the mail "ID" of their registered members that are online/ offline. Among the millions that subscribe to Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail email accounts and other private and company email addresses on Microsoft worldwide. We only select twelve people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, since your email "ID" is already existing in our computer system. We are congratulating you for been one of the people selected for this month.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £1,000,000.00 GBP will be released to you from our regional  office in UK
 
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for £2.3 Billion GBP international draw. 
 
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
 
Below particulars are your identification numbers.......................
  
 Batch number......................Lwh 09445
 Lotto number........................Lwh09446
 Winning number...................................................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the event manager, Dr. John Henry, with the following information’s listed below

1.FULL NAME..........................................
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN........................
3.PRESENT ADRESS...............................
4.POSTCODE............................................
5.DATE OF BIRTH....................................
6.SEX.............................................................
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER.........................
8.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)..........................
9.MARITAL STATUS.................................
10.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER..........
 
11. OCCUPATION.............................................
  
12. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL...............
 
13. IN BRIEF EXPLANATION,HOW DO YOU INTEND TO USE YOUR WON PRIZE IN IMPOROVING YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING..................
 
Fill this form and forward it to the Event Manager. As soon as you contact the Event Manager via this email address:
  
EVENT MANAGER: DR. JOHN HENRY
CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER: +447011150741
CONTACT E-MAIL:  eventmanagerprizeunit@winning.com 

He will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money...................................
 
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
 
Congratulations once more!!

Yours Sincerely ,
 
MRS. CAMMIE DUNAWAY
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.                          
The Yahoo.com staff
 
http://www.yahoo.com 
http://www.msn.com  http://www.hotmail.com


 

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