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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: "Martin Evans" <prizenotification@primeroyalstakes-uk.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:54:58 +0000
Subject: Congratulations!

THE COORDINATOR, NATIONAL LOTTERY UK.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
PRIME ROYAL STAKES UK.

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results of the
Sweepstakes Draw of PRIME ROYAL STAKES. We are happy to inform you that you
have emerged a winner under the Second
Category High Stakes Draw, Which is part of our promotional draws.

The draws were held on 30TH JULY, 2005 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 30,000 names/email
addresses of Individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions
Program.

You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 55-4-123, with serial number
57-10 drew the winning numbers 09 12 17 53 34 61 (22) and consequently won
in the Second Category.

You have therefor been awarded a lump sum payout of £2,500,000 GBP (Two
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning
payout for Second Category Winners. This
is from the total prize money of £15,000,000 shared amongst six(6) winners
in the B Category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund has been long deposited with our International Funds Transfer
agents "FINANCESOURCE INVESTMENT GROUP" and has been insured in your name.
In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your
award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your
claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is
part of our security protocol to avoid double Claiming or unscrupulous acts
by Participants/non-participants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice, our December 2005 Premium Stakes Draw
where you stand a chance of Winning up to £50 Million that will be shared
Amongst 10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of your prize you
will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated bank account of your choice;

MR JAMES ELLES
FINANCE MANAGER.
FINANCESOURCE INVESTMENT GROUP.
642 HIGH ROAD,
GREATER LONDON E113AA, UK
TEL:+44-703-194-9539
FAX:+44-709-286-8074
Email: jameselles6@financesource.com

You are advised to contact your claims agent by email and/or fax within a
week of receiept of this notice. Failure to do so may warrant immediate
disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find Below your reference and
Batch numbers. Remember to Quote these numbers in every one of your
Correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: NLUK/06/3456/7564/GL256
BATCH NUMBER: NL5/BZO7-6

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

Sincerely,

MR MARTIN EVANS.
THE COORDINATOR,
PRIME ROYAL STAKES.
13 GORDON ROAD TUDOR
SQUARE NG25LL LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL:+44-703-194-3514
FAX:+44-709-286-9677

N/B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claims
agent immediately.(TERMS AND CONDITION APPLYS).


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