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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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Fraud email example:

From: Lottery coordinator <Lotterycoordinator@gamesoffortune.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:09:58 +0200
Subject: Congratulations!!



FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT


DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR PROMOTIONAL DRAW
GAMES OF FORTUNE UK wishes to officially inform you that you have emerged a winner under our Third Category Draws held on the 5TH of MARCH 2005.The third category is a free entry draw, winners were selected by a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies entered into our database for the third category.

Your Lottery Claim is attached to ticket number 71-05, with serial number 17-72, and drew the lucky numbers 02 33 37 45 50 58 (17) to emerge one of the third category winners.

You have consequently been awarded a lump sum pay out of &#163;1,800,000.00 (One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) in cash, which is the winning payout for Third Category winners. This is from then total prize money of &#163;5,400,000.00 shared between 3 international winners in the category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with CAPITAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LTD insured in your name. In your best interest and als o to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until we have successfully transferred your winnings to your account. This is part of our security control to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our mid year (2005) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to &#163;9,00,000.00, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately, to begin your claims process;

MR. RAYMOND BROOKS
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
CAPITAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LTD.
PHONE: +44-207-0601690
+44-7040-118428

EMAIL: raymondbrooks3@crmltd.org

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to your designated account.

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than 2 weeks from the date of this notice. After this date, all unclaimed winnings will be returned to the Lottery firm.

NOTE: For quick reference and identification, Find below your reference and Batch numbers, remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent/Company.

REFERENCE NUMBER: GOF3-3
BATCH NUMBER: CMR-05

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.


Sincerely,

LOTTERY COORDINATOR
GAMES OF FORTUNE,
90 GAMES ACRE LONDON,
ENGLAND WC2E 9RA
Phone: +44-7040118053

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Contact your claims agent.(TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY)





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