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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: u.k.national@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:30:21 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?DEPT=20OF=20AWARDS=20AND=20CLAIMS?=

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#969) of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Wednesday
april 6th 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
22-26-36-43-45-49(bonus
no06.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the2nd category i.e
match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sumof £177,573 (one hundred
and seventy seven thousand five hundred and seventy three pounds sterling)
in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £1,065,438 shared amongst the first
six (6) lucky
winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
All participants for the online versionwere selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system andextracted from over

100,000 unions, associations, andcorporate bodiesthat are listed online.
This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicatedin your play coupon.

In view of this, your £177,573 (one hundred and seventy seven thousand
five hundred and seventy three pounds sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence theprocess to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep yourwinning 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. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
MR. KENNETH SCHOLEY.
Email: kennethscholey@web2mail.com
You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
http://www.lottery.merseyworld.com/
Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.





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