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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: lott2@walla.com
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:27:13 +0200
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING

United States Department of State
American Green Card Lottery Program
National Visa Centre
32 Rochester Ave,
Portsmouth, NII 03801-2909
http://www.usafis.org

AMERICAN GREEN CARD WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Congratulations! You are among those randomly selected and registered for further consideration in the DV-2004 diversity immigrant program for the fiscal year 2005 (July 1, 2004 to June 2, 2005) Your address attached to Case Number: DV4849721 639/ file MFK/60192384512/04 also with! Reference Category: DV-DIVERSITY which guarantee that you are among those selected to live and work in the United States of America. You have therefore been approved to be issued an immigrant visa with immediate effect to live and work in USA because the number of applicants selected is lower than the number of visas available.

Approximately 45,000 individuals were registered for processing. However there are only between 50,000 and 55,000 diversity visas available under the FISCAL YEAR 2004-2005 DIVERSITY VISA PROGRAME. Therefore it is more important that you carefully follow these instructions to increase your chances of possible visa issuance. Please retain this letter and forward it to our National Visa Centre Corresponding agent. A free Air ticket from your country to United States will be issued to you to clear your Green Card under the American Green Card Lottery Program as soon as you arrive in United States of America.

Please read and follow all instructions correctly. ALL FORMS AND CORRESPONDENCE must be sent to our European National Visa Centre Corresponding agent at their contact details below. Please notify our European National Visa Centre Corresponding agent of any change of your address, addition or deletion of any family members, other information which you believe may effect your visa application.

Our European Corresponding agent will provide you with FORMS 230 PART 1, 230 PART 2 AND DSP-122 FOR YOURSELF AND FORMS 230 PART 1 AND 230 PART 2 FOR ALL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS which you will fill accordingly when filling for your visa application.
Please note that your Case Number falls within our European office representative in United Kingdom as indicated in your Reference Category. In view of this, your visa would be processed and issued in, United Kingdom.
Our European National Visa Centre Corresponding agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the issuance of your visa as soon as you contact their office.
Note: that you must file for your visa application on or before the 28th of June 2005, before the chances for your visa will be declared unclaimed by the Fiduciary Board of the American Green Card Lottery Program.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your Case Number and other viable information confidential till your visa application is processed and your visa issued to you. 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 agent:
Ms Marlon Ellis
Email: marl@europe.com

You can go to our online web site to confirm the value of your winning:-
http://www.usafis.org/_sys/EN/adz.asp

Good luck from me and members of staff of the American Green Card Lottery Program.

Yours faithfully,

Jeff Kenrick .
Online coordinator for American Green Card Lottery Program

This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named herein. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender



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