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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: "uknl uknlnotificationdraws" <uknl@uknlnotificationdraws.org>
Reply-To: claimsagent@uknlnotificationdraws.org
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:04:11 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.

The National Lottery Logo                                                     

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

 

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nș: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nș:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National U.K Lottorey wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 10th SEP, 2005. Your email account have been picked as a winner of FIVE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY SIX POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released to you on  11TH SEP, 2005 and your email address attached  in the A Category bonus ball Ball number 1Ball number 8Ball number 24Ball number 27Ball number 34Ball number 46  to check your results online click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program,For the release of your winning,kindly contact your claims agent in British Lottery Head Quarters Mr. John Maxwell on tel +447031911375 you are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than 16th May, 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

You are therefore advised to give the following informations to your claim's agent via email which is claimsagent@uknlnotificationdraws.org

1. Full name and address.

2. Country.

3. Tel and fax number.

4.Occupation.

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Micheal Cole
Executive.(Euro Lottery Intern.)

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
Copyright © 2005 British Lottery International

MRS JULIE VAN HANS,

VICE PRESIDENT

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