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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: "GLOBAL ONLINE LOTTERY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <apeters@secretary.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 05:43:30 +0700
Subject: GLOBAL ONLINE LOTTERY INC WINNING NOTICE

GLOBAL ONLINE LOTTERY INC.
Mega Buildings behind Texas DPS ACP30
Saturn Road Garland, TX, United States.
Tel:+1(202)844-0034
 
 
 
 
 
This is to inform you that you have won USD$550,000.00 in the on going free ticket attach Online Lottery promotion 2017 organized by GLOBAL ONLINE LOTTERY INC.
 
 
Global Online Lottery Inc collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Ten (10) people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners. Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers. Global Online Lottery Inc Prize Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to as unclaimed. Stated below are your winning qualification referance number.
 
 
 
Please quote your qualification winning referance numbers to our secretary for security reasons. Qualification Referance Number: F-147-7689-543-50 quote in all Discussions.
 
 
Contact information below:
 
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Secretary: Alexander Peters
Email: apeters@secretary.net
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Endeavor to contact her with your Bio-data's (full Names, address, country, age, sex, occupation, telephone number.
 
 
 
Kindly forward your reply to our secretary Mr. Alexander Peters
 
 
Yours in service,
 
 
Gary Newman Jr
Information officer
Global Online Lottery Inc.

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