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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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Please note about this email:

Fraud email example:

From: "bonus lottery" <bonuslotterywinnig2005uksewettprize@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:03:47 +0000
Subject: NATIONAL LOTTERY, online

U.K National Lottery On-Line

UK-LOTTO Headquarters:
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England
Customer Service
                                       WINNING NOTIFICATION
 
 We happily announce to you the draw of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 5th of March, 2005
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT



DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the

results of the First Category draws of LUCKY STRIKE

LOTTERY UK. We are happy to inform you that you have

emerged a winner under the First Category, which is

part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on

14th May 2004 and results are being officially

announced today. Participants were

selected through a computer ballot system drawn from

2,500,000 names/email addresses of individuals and

companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,

Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our

International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number

6422-5-486, with serial number 59-18 drew the lucky

numbers[02 04 09 12 19 21 24] (18) and consequently won in the

First Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of

£6,500,000 (Six million, five hundred thousand

Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning payout for

Category A winners. This is from the total prize money

of £13,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this

category.



CONGRATULATIONS! ! !

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents

CASH CHANGE UK LTD and insured in your name. In your

best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and

names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire

details of your award strictly from public notice

until the process of transferring your claims has been

completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double

claiming or unscrupulous acts by

participants/nonparticipants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year

premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of

winning up to £50 million; we hope that with a part

of your prize you will participate.



Please contact your claims agent immediately for due

processing and remittance of your prize money to a

designated account of your choice:

MR. ANDREW YOUNG,

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,

CASH CHANGE UK LTD

EMAIL:departmentprizeaward@yahoo.co.uk



You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or

fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to

do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find

below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to

quote these numbers in every one of your

correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04

BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59

Congratulations once again from all our staff and

thank you for being part of our promotions program.



Sincerely,



THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY UK

12 BRIDGE STREET,

STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK




N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the

winners will result to disqualification. Please do not

reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent

immediately.

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