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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: "GRAPHICS FORTUNE LOTTERY.ORG" <graphicslottery.org@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:30:40 +0200
Subject: Att: The Owner of this Email Address

From: The director of the Prize Award Department
Reference number: EG/38807886091/05
Batch number: 340/1608/RDL

Att: The Owner of this Email Address

Re: Award Notification Of Final Notice

We are pleased to inform you of the release on the 21st of SEPTEMBER 2005 of the result of the GRAPHICS FORTUNE LOTTO brits sweepstakes lottery International promotion UK programmes held on the 17th AUGUST Your email address attached to the ticket number 033-1146993-750 with serial number 13-15-16-21-34-36, which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been awarded the lump sum of £1.5 million(One Million Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file number EG/38807886091/05.This is from the total cash prize off £150,000,000,00(One Hundred And Fifty 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 us.

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 claims have been processed and the money remitted to 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 international promotional program, which we conduct twice annually. We hope that with a part of your prize, you will take part in our end of year high stake 3bn lottery. To avoid fraud and scams, and to begin your claim, please contact only your assigned agent, Mr Morris Dennison; foreign service manager of GRAPHICS LOTTERY ORG via email on lifefortunelottery@consultant.com for processing and remittance of your money to a designated account of your choice. All prize money must be claimed not later than 14days from the date of this notice, as after this date, all funds will be returned to GRAPHICS 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, notifying him of the change.

Congratulations once more for and on behalf of all members of my staff and thank you for being a part of our promotions program.

Thanks

Mr Morris Dennison
Tel: 0044 703 184 8477
International:+44 703 184 8477
Fax:+44-207-681-1546
Email: graphicslottery.org@mac.com
Email: lifefortunelottery@consultant.com
For Further Assistant please call your international
directory in your country
(GRAPHICS FORTUNE LOTTO)




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