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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 Lucky Surf Promotions" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bbritishlotto@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:52:04 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATION'' YOUR AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

F ROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
LUCKY SURF LUCKY PROMO IN CONJUCTION WITH
(BRITISH LOTTERY OLYMPIC PUZZLE)


AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:


REF NO: HFTI/941JUD/07
TICKET NO: NHF754/20/33

We the Board and Management of British/ Luck surf Lottery London, wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program held on 27th day of October, 2009. Your email account have been picked as a winner of 1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS) this results is today released to you and your email address attached in the A Category. All email addresses were selected through a computer ballot system in which your email address was selected as one of the lucky winners

Most recently the organization set up the BRITISH LUCKY SURF LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS to give out prizes based on the computer ballot system. By doing this the organization seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.

This is in conjunction with the British £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm) The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over
the next seven years to pay its share of the public money going into the
Olympics.

We are please to inform you of the announcement today as one of the (10) lucky
winners in the BRITISH LUCKY SURF LOTTO draw held on 27th-10-2009. All winners from the lottery promotional program where randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 individual and company emails. Your email address emerged alongside nine (9) others as a category 'A' winner in this year's Annual British Surf Online Draw.


The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 11 13 26 34 44 48
(ii) Email ticket number: NHF754/20/33
(iii) Lotto code number: NHFTI09622SP
(iv)The file Ref number: HFTI/941JUD/06

You are advice to contact the under listed authorized (Category "A"
Clearing Agent) as soon as possible for immediate release of your winnings:

MRS. JESSICA HINES.
MR. RICHARD GERARD
FOREIGN AUTHORIZED CLAIMS AGENTS,
TEL: +44-7024037964 FAX: +44-844778689
Email: bbritishlotto@yahoo.co.uk

Your fund is now deposited and insured in your name with our accredited
Authorized Finance House. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your cash prize release to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
Acts by other participants of this program.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to attach your reference, ticket number and Lotto Code number as quoted above in every one of your correspondence with your authorized Claims agent.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims
agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank
you for being part of our Lottery Promotion program.
Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Best Regards,
Mr.Paul Adams.
THE ZONAL PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
British Lucky Surf Promotions.

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.

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