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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "martin idah" <martin_idah@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: martin_idah@walla.com
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:53:44 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!

CONGRATULATION!!!!
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOGRAMS.
188 HIGH ROAD,LOUGHTON
ESSEX. UNITED KINGDOM
REF.NUMBER: LIJ/365549/23
BATCH NO:3321/MN
LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
final draws of THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOGRAMS.The online cyber lotto
draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 250,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.
Your email address was attached to ticket number 787-8766532210, drew the
lucky numbers -03-12-17-36-44-49-20,batch number 3321/MN and consequently
won the lottery in category A. You have therefore been approved of a lump
sum pay out of 850,000.00 Pounds staling (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds staling) in credited to file lottery Ref number. LIJ/365549/23.
This is from total prize money of 30,000,000.00 Pounds staling shared among
the international winners in categories C with serial
number:KD/PBG/33-A5567/LP.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form
250,000 company email addresses and 70,000,00 individual email addresses
from Australia,Africa, New zealand,Europe, SOUTH & North America and Asia as
part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!Your fund is now in the custody of a financial company
insured in your File Reference number.Due to mix up of some numbers and
names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public
notice until your Claims has been processed and your winning is remitted to
you.
This is part of our security policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous
acts by participants of this program. This lottery program was promoted by
our group of philanthropist headed by the UNITED KINGDOM government.
To file for your claim, please contact our financial agent:
MR MANFRED EICHENHERR.
188 HIGH ROAD,LOUGHTON
ESSEX. UNITED KINGDOM
Tel:+44-703-1945-181
Tel:+44-703-1940-292
Fax:+44-7031-940-285
Email:manfred_eichenherr2006@yahoo.ca
You can go to our online result site to confirm the Value of your winnings
and also get a prize breakdown:-
http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK
Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than 16TH
MARCH,2006. After this date, All lottery winning funds that are not claimed
will be returned as unclaimed.
Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to always quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondences with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore, should there
be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as
possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being
part of our promotion.Anybody under the age of 18 is were disqualified.
Yours sincerely,
MRS.WILLIAMS RONARLD.
(GAMES/LOTTERY COORDINATOR)


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