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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: "David Cole" <maildavidcole@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:42:44 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR EMAIL HAS JUST WON YOU X750,000

                                                   The National Lottery                                            
                                                    P O Box 1010
                                                    Liverpool, L70 1NL
                                                    UNITED KINGDOM
                                                    (Customer Services)
                                                      
                                                       14-02-2005
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
                        
                                              WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on Monday 2nd
January,2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:1416-4612-750 with
Serial number 3187-17 drew the lucky numbers:31-17-8-28-55 (bonus no.25),
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5
plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£750,000 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that arelisted
online. This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in
Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your
£750,000(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling) would be released to
you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you make contact.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part!
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned.
To file for your claim,please FILL THE FORM BELOW, and send the filled
form to your fiduciary agent Mr. Mark Winters via email.
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. In order to verify
your winnings, we need your
particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our
verifications form, please fill
accordingly so as to proceed with your winnings. Once again
congratulations from all the staff.
1. FULL
NAMES:____________________________________________
2. DATE OF
BIRTH:_________________________________________________
3. SEX:___________________________
4. MARITAL
STATUS:_____________________________________
5.CONTACT ADDRESS:____________________________________
6.TELEPHONE
NUMBER:________________________________________
7.OCCUPATION:________________________________________________
8.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_/_________________________________________
9.INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRICE COLLECTION
(A)CHEQUE
(B)DRAFT
(C)BANK TRANSFER
IF BANK TRANSFER,( Details of your account)
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Upon receipt of the duly requested datas,i`ll send you
the contact information of the payment office so you
can proceed with effecting the release of your claims
CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY AGENT
Agent Mark Winters.
Email 1:
fiduciaryagentwinters@yahoo.com
Email 2:
fiduciaryagentmark@inbox.com
Yours faithfully,
Rose Wood.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
NATIONAL LOTTERY
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY


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