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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: HEINEKEN COMPANY <lakusma2002@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: barclaysbankinfoplc101@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:00:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!




HEINEKEN BOTTLING COMPANY

ANTHONIE VAN DIJCKERWEG

11078 AMSTERDAM

NETHERLANDS

Website: http://www.heineken.nl



Ref Number: ASL/941OYI/02/SHYN

Batch Number: HGL-14/28/0046

Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

CONGRATULATIONS!!!



Dear Sir/Madam,



We are delighted to inform you of your prize release On DECEMBER 2011 from the Heineken International Lottery programmer. Which is fully based on an electronic

selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from some site.Your email address was attached to ticket number; 47061725 07056490902 serial number 7741137002 This

batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of US

$600,000.00 (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All

participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia,United States, Asia, Europe,

Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.



To file for your claim, please kindly fill out the claim form below and e-mail it to the paying bank, with the contact below.



BANK NAME: BARCLAY'S BANK LONDON PLC.

DIRECTOR : Dr. Robert E. Diamond,Jr.

TEL : +44-70359-12093

EMAIL : barclaysbankinfoplc101@gmail.com



Name:......

Age:... .

Sex:...

Date of birth..

Home Address:....

Phone number.. ( code/number)......

E-mail that won....

Occupation.......

Company:.......

Next of Kin:....

Nationality:.....

Country:........





ANY BRANCH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION



Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards Rev. David Mark (co-ordinator)



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