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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: ROYALL FOUNDATION <grantamount6001@msn.com>
Reply-To: <rhtftrust@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:56:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Notification of Cash Grant.






Royal
Heritage Trust Foundation

5
Sheddingdean Business Centre

Burgess
Hill, SussexRH15 8QY

United
Kingdom.



Dear
Grant Winner,



Re:
Notification of Cash Grant.



We
are pleased to announce that you have qualified for Cash Grant of Two million
five hundred thousand pounds sterling {£2,500,000.00} for Business, Economic,
Social and Research Developments in your community. This Grant was freely given
to you by the Multi-Million Royal Heritage Trust Foundation for Human Growth
and Community development in line with this year anniversary program.



A
total of Thirty Five Million British pounds sterling will be freely giving out
as grants to 150 lucky international recipients worldwide in different
categories for Research, Business and Social Development. All participants for
the online edition were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a
computer draw system and extracted from over 50,000,000 unions, associations,
and corporate bodies that are listed online.



Your
name and e-mail address attached to ticket number: rhtf: 56475600545188 with
Serial number 7768/10 drew the lucky number: 10 which subsequently won the
£2,500,000.00. You are therefore required to contact immediately the Executive
Secretary quoting your wining details as stated above for instant processing
and subsequent release of the cash to you.



Dr.
Lincoln Smart

Executive
Secretary

Royal
Heritage Trust Foundation

TEL/FAX:
+44 70 1704 3063

Email:
rhtftrust@hotmail.co.uk



Good
luck from me and mangement of the Royal Heritage Trust Foundation.



Yours
faithfully,

Mr.
Mark Armstrong

Online
Co-coordinator for Royal Heritage Trust Foundation


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