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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "claim agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- michaelwoodoffice.eef2222@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "RIHANNA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <michaelwoodef201@sify.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:42:57 +0800
Subject: World Education Program !

FROM THE DESK OF MRS. RIHANNA PERRY
8TH FLOOR, 39 WOODLANDS CLOSE GOLDERS
GREEN LONDON NW11 9QR UNITED KINGDOM
HEADING :{AWARD RESULT 2011}

From World Education Program in Association with Readers Digest®,
we happily announce to you that you have won award of $750,000.00 at China
Payment Center.

Your email address name attached to a ticket number: 44-09-42-09-94-4Q with
the serial number: 66-Q99 drew the lucky number: 09-54-90-76-00 which
consequently won the draw in the 2nd category. Your email address was among
the (10) email addresses chosen to receive grand prize of US$750,000.00 each
in this section. Therefore you must contact your Claim Agent.

MR. MICHAEL WOOD
Email:michaelwoodoffice.eef2222@gmail.com
Address:1114,zhong,Xing court, Building,
Oppt,feng,Tianhe, er road, Centre, Floor 1021,
Beijing, China.

He will need to confirm everything we have on file to ensure that,there will
be no set backs upon the release of these funds to you. I want you to know
that verification and confirmation of all of your payment documents have
been sent to our affiliate company, The International Lottery Board of
Commissions from our processing office. Also, be rest assured that your
winnings will be released to you as {ATM Card or Bank Transfer} which can be
used in any Atm machine worldwide. This will be issued from our payee bank
in China.

We have five clearance offices zoned continentally
AUSTRALIA,CHINA,USA,LONDON & ALGERIA. Clearance zones are picked randomly by
computer, each winning number falls within any of the clearance zones
picked, it is the duty of the approved zonal clearance officer to handle all
clearance processes to make sure bank releases won prize in time.

Your prize number falls within Asia region clearance office in Beijing,
China . In view of this, your prize will be released from China, your money
has been deposited in the bank with insurance coverage.Your clearance agent
will facilitate payment process immediately you contact him.

Contact with your information below:

Full Name:..........................

Marital Status:.....................

Age:................................

Occupation:.........................

Home Phone:.........................

Mobile Phone:.......................

City/Country:.......................

Nationality:........................

Ref No:.............................

Batch No:..........................

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