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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: "KLIFF GERALD" <fountainseed3@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:43:52 +0000
Subject: NOTICE

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
The Marina Offices,
upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England


Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
FreeLotto draw held on the JULY 19 2005. All 10 winning addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email
address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's
Annual
FreeLotto Draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
5.Million pounds (five million pounds) only.The following particulars
are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) the file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Due to the mix up of some numbers and email, we ask that you keep this
award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed
and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of this program.

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:

George Cambell
Chief financial Director
The Freelotto Company
Email (georgecambell@walla.com)

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. Remember,you must contact your claims officer
not later than one week from the receipt of this mail.After this date, all
funds will be returned as unclaimed.All correspondences to ROBERT KIRTON by
email should have this email sent along with it and also, your email address
to which this email is sent,should be clearly and boldly written in your
response.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference number in every one of your
correspondences with your officer.Furthermore,should there be any change of
your
address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Kliff Gerald
Promotions Manager
The Lotto company
UK & Europe.







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The FreeLotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation,the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers,Mckintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies.The freelotto internet
draw is held
once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and
computers
worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually
in more
than 150 countries worldwide.


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We also encourage you to visit our website at www.freelotto.com and
take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners. Millions
are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto
service.



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