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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: "Branka Babic" <brankababic1@msn.com>
Reply-To: gino029@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:01:53 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS

CONGRATULATIONS!

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
UK OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND


Dear Winner,

My name is Branka Babic , and on behalf of FREE LOTTO COMPANY OF UNITED

KINGDOM, I wish to congratulate you as one of the 10 lucky winners in

the Free Lotto draw held on the 30TH October, 2005. All 10 winning

addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000

international mails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a

c. category winner in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of

2,000,000 USD (Two million USD only). The following particulars are

attached to your lotto payment
Order:

Please we will also like to know where you can come to claim your money
either in our off-shore payment outlet which includes holland germany spain
malaysia or coming here in the uk to claim your prize and a brand new car.

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-88-72-00
(ii) Ref number: FL/04/736207154/UK
(iii) Batch number: FL09634UK


Please contact the under listed claims officer under category C winners

as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

MR. Frank don
Royal Finance & Securities.
342 Walworth road,
London,
SE172NA
United Kingdom
TEL/FAX : +44-7040115947
EMAIL: frankdon029@yahoo.com

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Branka Babic.


This email notification is auto-generated its contents are valid for

only two weeks and it is unmonitored so do not reply.



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