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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: "uknational lottery" <bonuswinningnotification@ukl-promo.com>
Reply-To: claimsdepartment@ukl-promo.com
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:40:35 +0000
Subject: BONUS WINNING NOTIFICATION


   NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION DEPARTMENT.
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

 

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
TEL:+447031945329
DATE:22th August 2005
.


                BONUS WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.

Your email account have been picked as a winner of Ninety Two Thousand,Four Hundred and Sixty Two  Pounds Sterling Only (£92,462) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total sum of One Million, Six Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixteen Pounds Sterling only (£1,664,316) shared amongst eighteen winners (18) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus of draw #1006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn randomly from a pool of over 100,000 names of e-mail addresses drawn from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and North & South America as part of our international promotions programme conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries. This results is now released to you on 14th August, 2005 and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 19-22-30-35-44-48 and bonus ball 03 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5.

To verify your winnings online click on this link
http://lottery.co.uk/res/  to verify our results.

In view of this, your Ninety Two Thousand,Four Hundred and Sixty Two  Pounds Sterling Only (£92,462) it will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European fiduciary  agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. 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 claims department were an assigned Fiducairy Agent assigned to your category would be at your assistance via :

claimsdepartment@ukl-promo.com

You are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on our winning.

Congratulations from me and the entire members of  THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Graham Miller (Sir)
Online co-ordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
+447031915366

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