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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: "America Online Co-Ordinators" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info_regalbank@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:31:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Your Electronic Email Address Has Won £485,000.00GBP On America Online Lottery (AOL)

>From America Online Company.
Address: 80 Hammer smith Road,
London, W14 8UD
United Kingdom,
England.



The America Online Foundation, was established in 1983 by America Multi-Million Groups, and now currently supported by the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU). And the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO).

To celebrate 30 years anniversary program, the America Internet Fund London, together with several national companies and other relevant authorities in given out a donation of ?485,000.00 GBP British Pounds Four Hundred and Eighty-five Thousand Great British Pounds) each to eight lucky recipients. You were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of ?485,000.00 GBP British Pounds Four Hundred and Eighty-five Thousand Great British Pounds as charity donations/aid from the America Foundation Company.

This online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 129,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.

However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world, your email was among the 8 lucky winners who won ?485,000.00 GBP each on the America Online Company.

To begin your claims, kindly contact Regal Bank London for your prize.

Contact Person: Dr Jon Robinson
Bank Name: Regal Bank London
City / Country: London England UK.
Tel:+447031932248
Contact Email: info_regalbank@yahoo.co.uk

You Are Required To Forward To Your Agent With The Following Details:

Beneficiary's Full Name:.....................
Beneficiary's Address:......................
Beneficiary's Country.............................
Beneficiary's Occupation .............................
Beneficiary's Phone:...............................
Beneficiary's Age: ..............................
Beneficiary's Sex: ...................

Ticket/Lotto number : Lwh 441 337 465 305,
Winning number : AOL1229/USLP
Serial number : Lwh 5/745/228

Note : Keep your winning information very confidential until your winning
money is transferred to you. This is to avoid double claim of fund.

Signed.

Artie Minson Jr
Chief Operating Officer America Online.

This massage is brought to you by the American Online Foundation ©2013 Copyright.

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