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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: "mexico lotterydepartment" <lotterywinings4u@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:07:20 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER IN THIS WEEK LOTTERY DRAW.

NEW MEXICO LOTTERY
Moonlight Lottery Promos,
406 Bury New Rd,
Whitefield,
Manchester M45 7SX
U.K.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 55 lucky
winners in the MOONLIGHT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS draw held
on 16th of JANUARY 2006. All 55 winning addresses
were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000
international emails. Your email address emerged
alongside 4 others as a category D winner in this
month's draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a
total pay out of £300,000.00 Pounds (Three hundred
thousand pounds) only. The following particulars are
attached to your lottery payment order

(I) Winning numbers: 98 11 81537 10 83
(ii) Email ticket number: 901-0148-790-691
(iii) Lotto batch number: 13/ffp/ldl/037
(iv) File Ref. number: MELI-T/17-F044262312
please note that, you are to contact your claims
officer immediately.

Below are his contact addresses.

MR BLAIR PETERS AND ASSOCIATE LTD U.K
Email:blair_fudiciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk
Tell:+44 702 3080 445
20lausanne road London,
sw2 3jb England .U.K

You are to provide the assigned cliams agent with the
under listed information as soon as possible for the
processing and delivery of your cheque via courier
service to your stipulated address, so do make sure

your address is spelt out accurately:
1. NAME IN FULL:
2. ADDRESS:
3. NATIONALITY:
4. AGE:
5. OCCUPATION:
6. PHONE/FAX:
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of
confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of
proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be
further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to
circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs Tina Forester.
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK.
406 Bury New Rd,Whitefield,
Manchester M45 7SX
U.K.

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 20 working days from
today.
2. Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the
claims officer.
3. Do inform the claims officer of any change of names
or addresses.
4. Please do not reply to this email. Contact your
claims agent.


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