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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: Canadian Lottery Commission <deebunce@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dr.wcoal@live.com
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:49:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: You Very Lucky To Be A Winner!!!



Canadian Lottery (Lotto bapore)
Headquarters:60a, Littleton palce Man
Tormentingly Ehg NG4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom

Dear Winner,

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer Balloting.

This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 1,000,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world.

It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users, therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it and on that regards, the Canadian Lottery Board wishes to inform you that your email address have won the sum of  $1,000,000.00USD (ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credited to file with:

REFERENCE NUMBER: EAAL/9080118308/10
WINNING NUMBER: 26 20 23 38 45 Bonus 60
BATCH NUMBERS: B7898 8798 2456 190

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed claims agent below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings with your full
Below details.

1) Your Full Name...
2) Contact Address...
3) Tel/Mobile Number...
4) Occupation...
5) Sex...
6) Age...
7) Nationality....
8) Marital Status...
9) Copy of your International ID...


Dr Wande Coal
EMAIL :(dr.wcoal@live.com)
Phone: +447024029866

Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Rosaline Anderson
Secretary


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