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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: United Kingdom National Lottery <n.kservices@aim.com>
Reply-To: mklsecurity@aol.com
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:49:37 +0700
Subject: Email Award Notification 2011




United Kingdom National Lottery
(Regional Office)
Drive Stanford,SW1V 3DW
United Kingdom.

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result in the just concluded annual final
draws of the United Kingdom INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY programs. The online cyber
lotto draw was conducted from an exclusive list of 1,000,000(One
Million) e-mail
addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet,so no tickets were sold to enter for
the promotions.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as
one of two
winners in the category \\"A"\\ You have therefore been approved to claim the
sum of GBP500,999,000 (Five Hundred Thousand,Nine Hundred And
Ninety-Nine Great
British Pounds Only) with the information below:

Ticket Number: 2747-3600-2010 188
Serial Number: 5368/02/10
Batch Number:CBSTA/7913/UK/AS
Reference Number:EAP/10/17/54/2010/UK

To file for your claims, you are to contact our appointed fiduciary agent for
the immediate processing and release of your winnings.

Mr Martin Cole(Foreign Operations Manager),
MKL SECURITY LTD
Company Email: mklsecurity@aol.com
Contact Tel No:+447031747874

You must contact the claim appointed agent quoting your winning numbers and
providing the informations below:

(1) Full Names.......................
(2) Contact Home/Office Address.............
(3) Country Of Origin................
(4) Winning Email.....................
(5) Mobile Telephone Contact.................
(6)Home/Office Telephone Contact............
(6) Marital Status.....................


Note: The Validity period of the winnings is for 20 working days other
wise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed.

Congratulations once again from all members and staff of this program.

Best Regards,
Ashley Jones,
Online Co-ordinator,
United Kingdom National Lottery.

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