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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: "UK National Lottery Headquarters." <awardwin1202@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:46:40 +0700
Subject: Your Lottery Winning Notification.


UK National Lottery Headquarters
Online Lottery Promo Dept.
Customer Service.
16-12-2005

Batch N0: 16/031/0026
Ref N0: KLP/092605/01/ZE

Attn: Winner.

We happily bring to your notice the results of the UK National Lottery annual draw held on the 7th of December 2005 in London. The online lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 100,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.

Congratulations!

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial number: 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you a prize in the category “B”. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of &pound;4,200,000.00 (Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) in cash credited to file Ref N0: KLP/092605/01/ZE.

This prize is from a total cash prize of &pound;12,600,000.00 (Twelve Million, Six Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) shared amongst the first Three (3) lucky winners only in this grand category "B". This year Lottery program Jackpot is the largest ever for the UK National Lottery.

The estimated &pound;35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Great British Pounds) jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history next year.

The Lowest was the &pound;4,000,000.00 (Four Million Great British Pounds) jackpot that was shared between two (2) lucky winners in December 2004 draw of the Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

For security reasons, be advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claims is processed and your prize money remitted to you as required in this grand category “B" terms and conditions of claims. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners.

Please note that, your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in London as indicated in our play Coupon. In view of this, your &pound;4,200,000.00 (Four Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate bank.

Our approved agent, The Trans Atlantic Company will immediately commence on the processing of your claims, to facilitate the release of your prize to you as soon as you make contact with them.

Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "B" winners with the information below:
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Name: Mr. Frank Anderson.
E-mail: frank@winning.com
Tel: +44 702 305 7639
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order Department, Trans Atlantic S.A London, United Kingdom.
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You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation and or double claiming.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your Reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of the UK National Lottery Promo.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Claudia Beckford.
Online Coordinator
UK National Lottery Promo.



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