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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: "UNITED KINGDOM FREELOTTO" <informationdpt1@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:35:33 +0000
Subject: Award Notification.

Promotions Manager,
The Lotto People www.freelotto.com
PO Box 42 United Kingdom

Award Notification.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today

01/11/05 of your
selection as one of the five winners of the

promotional Free Lotto
Sweepstakes held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL

BONANZA. You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of

£500.000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) We in the

Free Lottery
Sweepstakes is by this program, Launching our model

computer balloting
lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy the

cravings of the
ever-growing number of participants in our various

lottery programs. With funds
accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to

all winners are guaranteed
and will be transferred in record time. After randomly

selecting 15,000
participants from an initial database of 300,000

emails, all
participants were selected through a computer ballot

system from the
Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and

South America as
part our international Promotions Program, which was

conducted in view of
launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry

Worldwide and zoning
all participants by their respective continents from

across the globe, we
produced an extensive list from which you have emerged

as one of the
winners of the Grand Draw prize.

You are to contact our agents by email within a week

of receiving this
notice. Please find full contact details below:

Mr.Williams Miller
External service manager,
Free lotto sweepstakes
United Kingdom
EMAIL: claimsagent4lotto@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+447031918858
Website www.freelotto.com

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one

of your
correspondences with your claims agent

REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312 Batch
No:901/00319/HLP
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003 Grand Draw

No: 12099
Congratulations once again.

------------------------------------------------------

--------- We also encourage you to
visit our website at www.freelotto.com and take your

chance to play and
become part of our daily winners. Millions are won on

a daily
basis on one of the world's most famous free lotto

services


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