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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: "francis fanning" <nationallottery@promoaward.org>
Reply-To: lottobaker@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:11:51 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Center,Bevan House,51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF,United Kingdom
REF: UKNL/26510460037/04
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
TICKET NUMBER:023-0148-790-459
LUCKY NUMBERS: 09-11-21-39-40-46-35

Sir/Madam

RE: 2005 FOURTH QUARTER LOTTERY RESULT
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of winners of the UK 2005
FOURTH QUARTER NATIONAL LOTTERY, this draw held in Croydon,London.
Your email address was attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with
serial number 5063-11 which drew lucky numbers 09-11-21-39-40-46-35, and
consequently won in the 2nd category star prize. You have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out Of $3,000,000.00(Three million united state
dollars).
This is from total prize money Of $30,000,000.00 shared among the ten
International winners in this second category star prize.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Websites through
computer drawn system and extracted from over 100,000 companies as part of
International Promotions Program by using a hi-tech advanced email address
generator software with 99.99% efficiency which is conducted annually.
your lucky winning number falls within our UK representative
office in London, in view of this, your $3,000,000.00 united state dollars
would be released to you by our payment center in
London.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.
To file for your claim, please contact our london payment centre
fiduciary/claims Agent;
Mr. Fanning Douglas Francis
Tel/Fax: +44-871-247-4825

For due processing of your prize Money, please remember to
quote your Reference, batch and ticket numbers in every one of your
Correspondences with your agent.
Furthermore, should there be any Change of your email address, do inform
your fiducial/claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our
promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Paul White
Zonal Co-ordinator


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