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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: "British National Lottery" <info@claims.org>
Reply-To: <claims.bnl.dept1@live.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:08:01 +0100
Subject: End Of Year Winner Notification

The British National Lottery
P O Box 10103b Liverpool,
L30 1RD United Kingdom

Ref: UK/9420X/05
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

FINAL NOTIFICATION

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your cash prize £1,000,000.00 (British Pounds) in the British National Lottery Online Promotion Program held on the 20th November 2009. The selection of your e-mail address process was carried out through random selection in Our computerized email selection system (ESS) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected. And your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05, 06, 17, 20, 28, 42 (Bonus 33), which subsequently won you the Lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 1,000,000.00 (One Million Pounds) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £ 4,000,000.00 (Four Million Pounds) ,shared among the (4)lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 6 plus bonus. Please contact your fiduciary Agent Mr. Greg Peterson immediately with the feed Verification/Fund Release Form Below:

1. Full Name:
2. Full Address:
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Nationality:
8. Country of Residence:
9. Telephone Number:

Name: Mr. Greg Peterson
Telephone: +44 704 570 3256
Email: claims.bnl1@live.co.uk

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