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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "british promo" <lottery@notofication.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:20:24 +0000
Subject: PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
CUSTOMER SERVICE,
*****************************
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON. LONDON. CR9 4HH
*****************************
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 12/25/0034

 

Dear Lucky Winner,

RE: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annualfinal draws of 2005 BRITISH LOTTERY DRAWS.

 

The online Cyber Lotto Email draws was conducted by a random selectionof email addresses from an exclusive list of 500,000 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automatedrandom computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers

forrepresentation and privacy. After this automated computer ballot, youre-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the first category withthe
following dataRef Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number: 564-75600545-188
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of £500,000 pounds(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) each from the
total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
addressand will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements,
statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory
report.

 

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company

for first category winners with the information below:
Mrs. Kate Henshaw, Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
DIAMOND FINANCE B.V
Phone: +447031903495
Email: diamondfinance_bv@walla.com

 

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After

this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with
yourclaims agent. You are to keep all lotto information away from the
general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is
important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

 

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Smith Carpenter.
Games/Lottery Coordinator.

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