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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: "Department of National Lottery" <dnlagency@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:24:00 +0000
Subject: September Uk Lottery Winner 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 Nº: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nº: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 18th August, 2005. Your email account have been picked as a winner of  (Five Million four Hundred and forty seventy six thousand two hundred and forty six pounds Sterlings only) £5,476,246:00.


This results is now released to you on  Sat. 10th September, 2005 and your email address attached  in the A Category lucky 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.nationallottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do 

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn fromMicrosoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advise 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.

All winning must be claimed not later than  10th October, 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:

1. Full name and address.

2. Country.

3. Tel and fax number.

4.Occupation.

5. Age

6. Your Ticket Number.

You are herein advised to contact the Claims Manager Sir Phillip Cadwell

with the Below information:

Telephone: +44 703 194 1415 ( 7am - 5pm) only

Fax: +44 871- 247-3310

Email: phillcadwell@keromail.com

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

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Julie Van Hans,
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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