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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: "uk lottery" <uklotterycontactmail@msn.com>
Reply-To: cliffordarmston@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:44:16 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nš: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nš:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain Your email account have been picked as a winner of  SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY.

This results is now released your email address attached in the A Category bonus ball     Ball number 4Ball number 7Ball number 26Ball number 41Ball number 42Ball number 49and bonus ball Bonus Ball number 37  to check your results on-line click on this link http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice 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,For the release of your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned 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 information's to your claims agent listed bellow,

Mr. jephaton spearl 
Programs & Events Department.

phone number:+447031957846

E-mail: cliffordarmston@yahoo.co.uk

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

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Julie Van Hans.
                               The National Lottery Logo

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