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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: "GREAT WEATHER LOTTERY PROGRAM" <great_weather_lotto2005@msn.com>
Reply-To: lotteryaus72@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:56:01 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!

                                                            
 
  
   THE WEATHER AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL 
              LOTTERY PROGRAMMAE 2005
 
Date: 5/12/2005
Ref: 7458222754
Batch: 905534213/255
Winning no: XB3/701/LNRC


                                                    
CONGRATULATIONS!!


Dear Lucky winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 30tht of July 2005 from the weather Australian international lottery programme 2005. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using  Your name was attached to ticket number; 7458222754,905534213
serial number 6741137002.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 2-17-43-47-52bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You here by have been approved a lump sum pay of UK £200,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/MW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participant were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Uk,Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomerates of somemultinationals companies as part  of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details (e-mail address) fall within our Nigerian representative office in Lagos, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of UK £200,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in Nigeria. Simply contact our Financial Agent 
 Mr. AndrewMoore with this email address  andrew_chanbers@yahoo.com  phone number +234-80371-30475

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for Uk £1.3 million international draw.

Please quote your Date of draw, reference, batch and winning numbers, which can be found on the top left corner of this and telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings must be claimed on or before 14th of December 2005; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards,
Dr Ahmed Ghali
{PROMOTION MANAGER}

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