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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "HALLMARK FOUNDATION" <HALLMARKSTAKES@ELTIMON.COM> (may be fake)
Reply-To: HALLMARKCONSULT@EXCITE.COM
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:57:35 +0100
Subject: YOUR PRIZE

HALLMARK FOUNDATION LOTTERY PROMOTION
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Chaucer House
Churchill Gardens
London, SW1V 3DW
United Kingdom.

In Conjunction with The National Organizing Committee of the2006 FIFA
World Cup. FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006organisationskomitee
Deutschland koniginstrabe 23, 80539 Munchen.

RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION..........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/ WORLDGAMING BOARD held on the 20th of September 2005.
Due to the mix up of numbers, the results were released on the 1st of
October 2005. Your email address attached to ticket number:
4156189324 under agent ID: 110, which subsequently won you a prize.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
$1,000,000.00(one million dollars) in cheque drawn in your favour as beneficiary and
covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information's confidential until your claims has been processed and
your money remitted to you. All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system
drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.

To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below who has
been appointed for the processing of your claim with the email address
below:

CONTACT NAME: John Kasper,
EMAIL: hallmarkconsult@excite.com </ym/Compose?To=hallmarkconsult@excite.com&YY=40994&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>
hallmarrkconsult@yahoo.co.uk </ym/Compose?To=hallmarrkconsult@yahoo.co.uk&YY=40994&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 2 weeks of
receiving this notification. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be
included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary
delays and complications please remember to quote your WINNING NUMBER and
AGENT NUMBER in all correspondence, and if there is any change of address
do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Dorothy Michaels




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