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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: Samsung <01@ophnon.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <claimsukffice@live.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:25:08 +0530
Subject: Congratulations!

SAMSUNG AWARD BOARD.
PO Box 1010, London
w70 6NL, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 702 4094 467
Batch Number: NK146/003
Pin Number: 85568VPG24
Pocket Number: 110147662

Dear Award Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the first online promotional award conducted by Samsung Company. Your E-mail was selected among 10 Lucky winners who won (£500,000.00 = Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterling's) each from SAMSUNG PROMOTIONAL AWARD 2013. Your E-mail was entered as an independent candidate and was attached to Verification Number (CN-435-663-6) and Batch Number: SMG146/003. The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 100,000,000 E-mail addresses of individuals by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. This promotional award is part of the financial empowerment program of the SAMSUNG AWARD BOARD WORLDWIDE in its struggle to alleviate poverty and to help less privileged.

However, no tickets were sold but all E-mails was assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized E-mail selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000,000 GSM NUMBER drawn from all the continents of the world. This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This lottery is the 1st of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. In order to claim your (£500,000.00 = Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterling's) winning award, you are advice to provide the required information below to enable us process all document to remit your funds to you.

NAME:
AGE:
GENDER:
ADDRESS:
PHONE:
OCCUPATION:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY.

Accept my hearty congratulations!

Sincerely,
Kerry Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Samsung Award Board,
United Kingdom.

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