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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: 2005 UK LOTTERY PROMO <fred_smith022@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:49:24 +0700
Subject:


Programs and Events Department
The Camelot Lottery - Frontline Group
The National Lottery,
P.O. Box 251,
Watford
WD1 8GD

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We are officially informing you of the result of the Frontline Lottery Winners International programs held on the 25th of November 2005 as part of our promotional programs for the year 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 77007742781005-18721 with reference number EGS/2251256003/02 drew winning numbers 7-00-71-00-66-49 and credited to batch number 121FTG, which consequently won in the 3rd category via our electronic ticket as stated above. You have therefore been approved for a pay out of 600,000 GBP (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS ONLY).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We also advice that you keep your winning information very confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double claims/impersonation and unwarranted abuse of this program by some individuals.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system (ESS) from a database of over 500,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world. This promotional program being the first of its kind will now take place annually and we hope with part of your winning, you will take part in our next year Eight Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pound Sterlings International Lottery. To file for your claim, your funds would be released to you by the fiduciary agent,( COFIDIS HASTA s.a madrid spain ).You are to contact your claim agent so as to immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
Authorized to conduct the neccessary verification to enable you receive total payment (You will receive more information upon your acknowledgment of this email).
To file for your claim, please contact your Claims agent:
( COFIDIS HASTA s.a ).Madrid Spain.
Name:MR.DAVID PABLO
Email: cofidis.s.a@k.ro
Tel: +34.606.660.844
You are to provide the claims agent with the under listed information as soon as
possible:
1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. SEX:.........................................
6. OCCUPATION (POSITION HELD):...................................
7. PHONE:........................................
8. FAX............................................
This promotional lottery is promoted and sponsored by software corporations and other private organizations and we intend to use this medium to help individuals generate fortunes which would encourage them to expand their business frontiers thereby creating more opportunities and assisting with humanitarian concerns within their immediate environment. All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as Unclaimed. After this date all winning funds will be included in our subsequent program. In order to avoid complications always quote your reference number in all correspondence.
NEWS UPDATE:
Lottery Diary http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Info/Diary.html,
Suscription leaflet: http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Info/Sub_Leaflet.html
links: http://lottery.merseyworld.com/Links/All.html
Furthermore, should there be any change of the winning Email address . you have to gave your inform to your agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff.
N.B: Anybody under the age of 17 is not eligible to participate in this program.
Your's in service,
Mr. Fred Smith.
(Programs & Events)

Material Copyright &copy; 2005 The Lottery Co. Ltd. •
The Lottery Company and lottery.co.uk is in no way affiliated with, associated with or approved or endorsed by Camelot Group plc or The National Lottery Commission.
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The Camelot Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation,
the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies. The Camelot LOTTERY internet draw in each quater of the
year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers
worldwide. We are proud to say that up to One Million Euros are won annually in more
than 150 Countries worldwide.

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