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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-Lotto Organization" <ukwinnings20051@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: ukwinnings20005@yahoo.it
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:01:37 -0500
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?You=20are=20a=20proud=20winner=20of=20=A32=2C367=2C834?=

UK-LOTTO Headquarters:
Customer Service
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the Uk-Lotto Sweepstake Lottery International
programs held on the 29th of june, 2005 Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:07-12-23-26-29-44
which subsequently won you the lottery in the first category. You have therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £2,367,834(Two million, three hundred
and sixty seven thousand, eight hundred and thirty four British Pounds sterling)
in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize
of £23,678,340 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.This promotion
takes place weekly.

The City Express Courier And Cargo Services has been given the contract to
deliver all our winners cheque from the first to last category. You are to
contact Mr Peter Wales, the Director of Operations and Logistics on this
email address: cityxpresscourier@yahoo.it
for quick delivery of your cheque.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential.This
is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your full names,your
country and address where you want to receive your cheque in your contact
mail to Mr Peter Wales and also with a copy of this winning notification
letter for confirmation to Mr Peter Wales.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Mr Hillary Smith.
Online Co-ordinator for Uk-Lotto Organization.
Sweepstakes International Program.





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