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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: "leeds leeds2005" <leedslotto_international10@msn.com>
Reply-To: scott_cole500@myway.com
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:38:09 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!

Customer Care Unit,
Leeds Lotto Int’l.
Dear sir/Madam,

Winning notification.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today monday 12th of
december 2005 of winners of the Leeds 2005 held on saturday 10th of december
2005.

The major sponsors of the Leeds Sport contributed funds for the raffle
promo. These include Adidas, Hyundai, Fuji
Film, Master Card, Gillette, Coca cola, Continental, Toshiba, McDonalds,
Emirates Airline and a host of others.

Your email address attached to ticket number 20000;with serial number
27240879 drew the lucky numbers and consequently emerged as one of the under
1st category.
You have therefore been approved of a Prize of One Million Two Hundred
Thousand Pound (£1,200,000.00) credited to file REF NO.LL3425/802/05.

This is from total prize money of ten Million Pounds shared among the Twenty
International Winners in 1st-3rd category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 company email addresses and 30,000,000 individual email addresses
from Australia,
New Zealand, America,Europe, North America and Asia as part of International
Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

We ask that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has
been processed and your money remitted to you .
To receive your claim, please contact your claim officer:
Mr.Scott Cole.
Officer In Charge.
Email: scott_cole500@myway.com

All prize money must be claimed in ten working days. After this date, all
funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: 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 agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of
your address, email, telephone number does inform your claims agent within
24 hours. Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.Please
include your private telephone and fax numbers while replying.

Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms, Faith Smith
Online Coordinator,
Leeds Lotto Int’l.


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