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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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9Yahoo!?= <tmurthwaite@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yahoo-office@mailmeasap.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:46:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=AE=28=28=28=28=28=28=28=28_Congratulations_=29=29=29=29?=
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=29=29=29=29=29_Your_e-mail_Won_our_Lottery?=


YAHOO! BETA UK&IRELAND INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD 2010
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSE!!!
YAHOO! BETA UK&IRELAND IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA
PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X).


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING for the New Year 2010 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO CLASSIC MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto to the whole wild world.

Yahoo! arrange and gather some of all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo! e-mail addresses and few from other e-mail providers. We only select SIX (6) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected as lucky numbers:(-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-)"bonus no 46. which subsequently won"you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we have 3 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our United Kingdom Location Claim Office on or before your date of Claim.

Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 21 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (21 days) will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
KTU Number......................../9023118308/03
Serial Number ...........................5368/02
Ticket Number.................... 5647560054188

To claim your prize money you are required to contact the our office with these information through this contacts below.

Email: yahoo-office@mailmeasap.com
Phone: +447035922890
Cell: +447011184252
Fax: 08702885153

You are therefore advised to send the following information below to e-mail address and a copy to us below in order to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed bank.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to her immediately:

Personal Information
1. Full name..................
2. Country.....................
3. Contact Address........... (P.O. Box is not allowed)
4. Telephone Number...........
5. Marital Status..............
6. Occupation....................
7. Age.........................
8. Sex...........................
9. Country of origin...........

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Yahoo! UK&IRELAND

Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY!

(Group Coordinator)

NB: In accordance with the YAHOO BETA, UK&IRELAND/STAATSLOTERIJ E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 6 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky number along with the winning information, you are not authorized to read, print, retain copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact us, +447011184252 see the instructions at the body of this message


YAHOO! UK & IRELAND
COPYRIGHT (C) 1999-2010 YAHOO LOTTERY AWARD INC.




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