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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 Charity" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rcurtis1111@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 03:41:17 +0800
Subject: Congratulations!!!

UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARD PROMOTION
Suite 154, Clarendon Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD61JF, London
United Kingdom.


Dear Winner,

we happily announce to you that you have won our International Charity Award of
usd$950,000 (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) during the 2009 Global
Internet Summit titled "Discovering Greatness", held in the London,
United kingdom. All 30 winning Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international Emails. Your Email address emerged alongside 29 others
as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK CHARITY FOUNDATION
PROMOTION LOTTERY draw. No tickets were sold.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
usd$950,000 only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment
order:

(i) Winning Serial Number: 900-102-447
(ii) Email Ticket Number: UK754/22/76
(iii) Lotto Code Number: TL09622UK
(iv) File Ref Number: ICA/11-GIS/2009UK

Please contact the under listed claims Agent as soon as possible for the
Immediate release of your winnings: PLEASE CALL OUR AGENT NOW.

Claims Our Agent
MR. Robert Curtis
Email: rcurtis1111@gmail.com
Phone: +447031846908

N.B: Steps to claiming your prize;

1. Contact your claims Agent immediately you receive this notification to
begin the claims process.

2. You are required to send your full name(s) as it should appear on the
Certificate of Winning that would be issued to you, and fill the below
Non-Private Information when contacting the Agent.

1. FULL NAME(S): ________________________________
2. ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY: ________________
3. SEX: ________________________________________
4. AGE: _______________________________________
5. OCCUPATION: _______________________________
6. COMPANY: _____________________ B. POSITION HELD: ____________
7. WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS: ____________________________
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________________
File Ref Number:________________________

3. Also quote your File reference Number as given above while contacting the
Agent. This is very important and compulsory on first correspondence with your
claims Agent.

On behalf of the entire UK CHARITY FOUNDATION stakeholders, I say
congratulations!!!

Sincerely,

John D. Colin
Promotion Manager.




PURPOSE OF UK CHARITY FOUNDATION AWARDS PROMOTION LOTTERY
===============================================================
To encourage internet users.

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The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION, a non governmental organization (NGO) is proudly
sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,Toshiba,Dell computers
and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.

The UK CHARITY FOUNDATION PROMOTION LOTTERY draw is held once in a year and is
so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide. We
are proud to say that over 15 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide.

If you do not wish to accept your prize, you should disregard this
Notification. Unclaimed Prize Money will be recalled and put back into the
Foundations projects.

Contact your Claims Agent immediately!

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