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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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Fraud email example:

From: "british lottery" <britishlottery_onlinesweepstakes@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:42:17 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION:

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68/EM
Batch: 074/05/ZY369/EM
Fax: +448701312413
Tel: +447031946186

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#1013) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on Wed. September 5th 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188/EM with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 01-05-07-41-43-49(bonus no.), which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £59,636 ( Fifty
nine thousand, six hundred and thirty six pounds sterling) in cash credited
to file KTU/9023118308/03/EM.

This is from a total cash prize of £894,540.00 shared amongst the first
fifteen (15) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

In view of this, your You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £59,636.00 (
Fifty nine thousand, six hundred and thirty six pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agents will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep yourwinning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mrs Jessica Morris.
Email:info_vrfdpt@verizonmail.com

For further clarification/verification of your claims, Please call on any of
our official numbers as stated in notification e-mail.

You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings
and also get a prize
breakdown:-http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program



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