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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: "WINNER LETTER" <winnerletter@onlinereapers.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:40:10 +0000
Subject: ***CONGRATULATIONS***

The National Lottery Logo                                                                                           

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

 U.K National Lottery On-Line

                                                    WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#600) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Tuesday 23 Aug 2005.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names and e-mail addresses of distinguished professionals 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 weekly to encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw (#988) selected your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 07-08-11-14-21-22(bonus no.27), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of  £92,462 (NINETY TWO THOUSAND,FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO POUNDS STERLINGS) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £1,664,316  shared amongst the Second Eighteen (18) lucky winners in the 2nd category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.



  NUMBER OF MATCHES   No OF WINNERS   £s PER WINNER      TOTAL

   Match  6                           2                         £2,704,534                £5,409,068 

   Match 5 plus bonus         18                        £92,462                     £1,664,316


   Match 5                          557                       £1,867                       £1,039,919 

   Match 4                         31633                    £72                            £2,227,576


   Match 3                        609303                   £10                            £6,093,030 


   Totals                           641513                                                     £16,483,909

 

                                                  Lotto

Additional Information:

Jackpot winner(s) 2

Machine used for Draw MOONSTONE 

Winners by Lucky Dip 220517

Ball set used 2.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 Unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

Your prize award has been insured in your name and is ready for claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your winning and remittance to you after all statutory obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.

This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your £92,462 (NINETY TWO THOUSAND,FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO POUNDS STERLINGS) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you.

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 fiduciary agent:

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
MR SIMON WHITE

Emails;simonwhite2006@yahoo.co.uk

phone;+447031907930

You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your
winnings and also get a prize breakdown:-
www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,

Bertron Hill
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,

Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-11pm.

The National Lottery Logo

 

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