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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: "Mr Davis Rogers" <davisrogers@tri-starsecurityuk.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:19:31 +0000
Subject: RE: UK lottery


The online cyber 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 from various
continents of the world. No tickets were sold.
Tickets were attached to individual email addresses from this address list,
then a computer ballot was drawn.
Eight email addresses out of the 100,000 used in this draw emerged winners,
one for first category (entitled to 5m.GBP), three for the second category
(which you fall in), and four for the third category (entitled to 1m.GBP
each).
This promotional program takes place every year. This lottery was promoted
and sponsored by
Association of software producers worldwide headed by Mr. Bill Gates, and it
is meant to encourage the use of microsoft worldwide.

Dear winner,

I am in receipt of your email and i will like you to state your
REFERENCE NUMBER and INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY CODE NUMBER.

Best regards,

Mr. Davis Rogers
Foreign department manager,
TRI-STAR SECURITY UK,
25 WOOD STREET,
WARWICKSHIRE CV37 6JF
LONDON UK.
FAX: +44-70-304-03603
TEL: +44-70-401-17541.



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