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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: "LIVER POOL LOTTERY" <liverpoolonline4@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:53:53 +0000
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION


The Liverpool Football Club Lottery,
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

END OF YEAR PROMOTION

The management of liverpool football club is glad to announce to the
world the END OF YEAR PROMOTION, giving away of the sum of TWENTY
MILLION
UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS to 40 lucky email addresses all over the
world.This
promotion is in appreciation of our International Support in the
European
Champions League Finals In Turkey ,and the correspondent capital profit
in
the
stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings. It
is also to Mark the Club's end of year and 100 years of cooperate
existence.Please
be informed that all winners in this program have been selected
randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000
companies
and individual e-mail addresses database.

Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of five
hundred
thousand pounds ( £500.000.00(G.B.P) among the Forty email addressess
chosen. For all our international winners the value of the amount comes
to
($917,956.00 USD)
Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six United
States Dollars.In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize, you will have
to fill the form below and send it back to us for verification and then
you will be inform on how your Cashier's Check for £500,000.00 has
already been deposited with your email contact.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM,
1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_____________________________________________
10.AMOUNT:_____________________________________________
11. WON:_______________________________
12. COUNTRY:________________________________

Please you are adviced to complete the form and send back to us for
prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below
18
years of age.Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners
will result to disqualification. This E-mail message (including
attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual or entity
to
which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged,
proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure. If you are not
the
intended recipient, you are notified that any
dissemination,distribution
or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited.
Sincerely,
BRAIN MARTINS
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent
MRS.MARIA DUVANO
EMAIL:agentmariaduvano1@uboot.com


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