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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: "Online Games Inc" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <localagent@sify.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 04:19:52 +0100
Subject: THIS EMAIL MIGHT JUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE

New Page 1
You won $500.000.00! Yahoo! Msn! Mail Congratulates You!
THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC

YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road

Sutton, Greater
London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.


Attention: Lottery Winner,

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs held on the 22nd of April 2010 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 9TH category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($500,000) for the 5th of May 2010 lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC .Every month.

YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL ID of the people that subscribes to yahoo mail, msn, hotmail, googlemail, aol, AltaVista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only five people will merge for winnings we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. You are to also pay for the handle charges of $100 only to the local agent, (cost of processing your payment certificate) this fee is not transferable or deductible from your lottery claim because it has been insured and cannot be tempered until it hits your bank account, it is our way of insuring that payment gets to our winners bank account without been stolen or hacked while on transit to your bank account.

Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved
 
These are your identification numbers....
Yahoo! Lottery Results:
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that you will
send to your claims agent, send identification and details of claim to.
 CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person: Mr. Mike Passlack

  localagent@sify.com

+2348026700714

 
You are therefore advise to quote the following information to
the Clams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund without delay.
Serial number 5388/02
Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788
 
Your winning fall in Africa-Asia! This promotion takes place every Month .Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Africa-Asia as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($500,000) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Africa-Asia. Our agent zoned for Africa paying bank will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIAL DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.
Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely,
Thank you for being a Yahoo/Msn Member.
 

 
Mrs. Darryn Clarke
Online coordinator Yahoo
International Lottery Program. .
 
ATTN: ONCE AGAIN WE THE ENTIRE STAFF OF THE YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WE ARE CONGRATULATING YOU FOR YOUR WINNINGS, SO IN ORDER FOR US TO PROCESS YOUR WINNINGS, YOU ARE TO FILL AND RETURN THE VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM BELOW TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT THROUGH THIS EMAIL BELOW:
 
CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person: Mr. MIKE PASSLACK.
Email: localagent@sify.com
 
 
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.
 
 
; VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM
 
FULL NAMES:__________________________________(BENEFICIARY NAME)
 
SEX:_______________
 
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH::_________________________________
 
MARITAL STATUS:________________________________________
 
OCCUPATION:________________________
 
E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
 
TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
 
BATCH NUMBER:____________________SERIALNO:__________________
 
TICKET NUMBER:____________________ WINNING NO:________________
 
 AMOUNT WON:___________________________________
 
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:________________________________
 
 NEXT OF KIN NAME AND ADDRESS:________________________________
 
DATE NOTIFIED __________________________________
 
DECLARATION:
 
I..................................................... ..........HEREBY DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE, MY NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNINGS. (OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENT) SHALL ACT AS MY AGENT IN FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME.
DATE:
YOUR FULL NAMES:
 
Upon receipt of the duly requested data, Our agent will proceed for proper verification and furnish you with the contact information of the payment Bank in the region where your winning numbers fall within so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.
 
 

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