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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: "John Williams" <britsworldwide@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:05:11 +0000
Subject: Winner

From: The director of the Prize Award Department


Reference number: EG/40028012/02


Batch number : 202/1245/SDD


Date: 20th September 2005



Re: Award Notification of Final Notice



Owner of This Email Address



We are pleased to inform you of the release on the 19th September 2005, the
Result of the BRITS WORLDWIDE LOTTO, UK promotion program held on the 18th
September 2005, your email address attached to the ticket number
244-332425-470 with winning number 09-13-19-27-41-49, which consequently won
the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been awarded the lump
sum of £1,000,000(One Million Pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
number EG/40028012/02. This is from the total cash prize off £10,000,000(Ten
million British pounds sterling) which is being shared among ten
international lucky winners in this category!



Your funds are deposited with a security company, which will be insured in
your name once you contact the security company. Due to a mix up of some
names and numbers, we strongly recommend that you keep this award a top
secret from the public notice until your claim have been processed and the
money remitted into your account. This is a part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming and unwanted scams of this program by other
participants.



All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 email addresses from all over the world as a part of our free
International promotional program by internet leading software companies
worldwide as gratitude for being an internet user, which is done twice
annually. We hope that with part of your prize, you will take part in our
start of the year high Stake £15,000,000 (Fifteen Million pounds Sterling)
lottery. To avoid fraud and scams, and to begin your claim, Please contact
only your assigned agent with your reference and batch number,
Susan Waters; Foreign Service Manager of WHITE STAR SECURITY NETWORK via
email on Tel: 0044 7904 762 392 or susanwaters@wazzoomail.com, send her your
officially name to put on your Certified bank cheque which will be insured
and delivered to you by your agent. All prize money must be claimed no later
than 14days from the date of this notice, as after this date, all funds will
be returned to Brits Worldwide LOTTO INTERNATIONAL as unclaimed.







In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference and batch number in every correspondence with us, or your agent.
Furthermore, if you have changed your email address, do contact your agent
to notifying him of the change.







Congratulations once more from me and on behalf of all members of my staff
and

Thank you for being a part of our promotions program.











Yours sincerely,


John Williams



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The Lottery Company is in no way affiliated with, associated with
or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery
Commission.
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From: The director of the Prize Award Department


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