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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: "Yahoo! Customer Care." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dredwardbrown8@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:02:35 +0100
Subject: Customer Care Alert 2015!

Dear Lucky Winner,

We the YAHOO INCORPORATION WORLDWIDE are pleased to inform you that you're among our award winners of YAHOO!Lottery promotion conducted in the UNITED KINGDOM (LONDON) BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR 2015.

Your Personal E-mail address or your Company email address is selected among the 5 winners in our Yahoo Lottery Promotion for the introduction and Launching of our new YAHOO !BETA & MICROSOFT OUTLOOK for all domain email users worldwide.You have been approved the sum of One Million United States Dollars
($1,000,000.00) only in this First category.

To claim your prize money; kindly send the following personal data to the claim agent / verification officer Dr
Edward Brown for verification process and the payment will commence after
the verification is completed.

Send the Following personal data as stated below with your identification numbers to the claim agent.
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

Batch number......................YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

1. Full Name.........................
2. Full Address.......................
3. Date of Birth.....................
4. Occupation........................
5. Nationality.......................
6. Resident Country....................
7. Telephone......................
8. Gender/Sex........................

Contact person: Dr Edward Brown
E-mail: dredwardbrown9@yahoo.com
dredwardbrown2@hotmail.com
Phone number:+447024053269

Send your Identification Numbers and Your Personal Information to him so that
he will proceed further for your prize claim processing immediately:Please maintain absolute confidentiality of this winning to avoid double claim or abuse of this promotion to avoid nullification of claims.

Note:You have 14 days to claim your winning and after the specified time,you will not have the opportunity to claim again.

Thanks for using E-MAIL.
>From Yahoo Customer Care

Yahoo! UK & Ireland
This e-mail is from Yahoo! Head Office USA and approved by the Yahoo! UK
Ltd, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8AD.

Copyright © 2015 Yahoo Inc!.
All rights reserved.

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