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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: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <notification@uknationallottrey.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:32:13 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

U.K NATIONAL LOTTO
Support Centre
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF UK
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 1st of April
2005,of winners of the U.K National Lottery held on 29th of March,
2005.in Croydon London.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serialnumber 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-04-09-15-16-23-27,
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have
therefore
beenapproved to claim a total sum of £725,000 british pounds in cash
credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of
£15,064,894(GBP) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in
this category. CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund(£725,000 british pounds) is now deposited with a Security
company insured in your email adress,ticket,serial and reference
numbers as indicated in this mail and would be released to you by our
preferred payment center in London.Our agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
companies/individuals from Middle East, Australia, New Zealand,
America,Asia, Europe,Africa and North America.This promotion takes
place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

PLEASE BE WARNED!!!

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the
below details for processing of your claims.
AGENT:
Mr.Bill Morgan.
email: bill-morgan953@hotmail.com

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money. Remember, you must contact him using
his mailing address not later than one week after this date or funds will be
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference number in every one of your
correspondences.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Sir. Brian Lloyd,
Co-ordinator,
Winning Department,
U.K NATIONAL LOTTO
www.national-lottery.com

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will
result to disqualification.


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