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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: "williamsagent wilcoxofficer" <williamwilcox36@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: freeawardlottery09@yahoo.it
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 04:48:23 +0000
Subject: YOU HAVE WON (₤250,000.00),CONGRATULATIONS!!!

FREE AWARD DEPT.
16 Broad Street,
Woolich, Middle Essex
United Kingdom.
London.
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
WINNING NOTIFICATION
This is to notify you of the release of the lottery winning, held on the
14th of may
2006.
Due to the mix up of numbers, the results were released on the 26th of May,
2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: 703218509 under agent ID: 10 and lucky ball number, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

(11) (13) (26) lucky ball number (34) (44) (48) (02)


You have therefore been qualified for a lump sum payout of ₤250,000.00
(Two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds Sterling) in
cash drawn
in your favor, as the soul beneficiary and covered with the HIGHEST LEVEL OF
INSURANCE POLICY called the IRREVOCABLE GURANTY
BOUND. That makes the prize NON-DEDUCTABLE Due to mix up of some names and
winning number, For security reasons, we advice
all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your
claim is processed and your prize released to
you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

You are to be rest assured on how you are a winner, when you never played
any. Is because all participants were selected
through our Microsoft computer ballot draw system. And as far as you use the
Internet. Microsoft we help us extracted over
20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from
all over the world.To process your claims you are
hereby advice to contact the The promotions Fiduciary Manager with this
information:

NAME:..................................

ADDRESS:..............................

NATIONALITY:........................

SEX:.....................................

AGE:.....................................

PHONE/MOBILE:......................

FAX:.....................................

OCCUPATION:..........................

COMPANY.......................................

BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:........

You are to choose from any of the transfer options Below:
(1)ONLINE BANK TRANSFER
(2)COURIER DELIVERY

You are also required to send a copy of your International Passport or
Drivers License along with the filled form. If you do not have an
International Passport or Drivers License, you can send your National
Identity Card or any other form of Identification.

Congratulations once again from all members of our staff, and thank you
for being part of our promotions program.
Name: CONTACT NAME: Mr. Williams Wilcox

EMAIL: freeawardlottery09@yahoo.it

Telephone Number: (+44) -(702)-(4064)-(494)

Warning: All winners are to claim their winning prize in not later than 2
weeks (14 days) of their winning notification.
Because we have to be fast in starting another season this New Year and we
want to use this opportunity to give ₤250,000.00
as a New Year gift. And you will be glad indeed.

And also I want to inform you that we are not like other lottery company
that wants to steal your hard earn money to use it
for our self fish reasons
Because this lottery program is open for investigation because we are a 100%
RISK FREE program, so fear nothing.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
The Free Award lottery company is proudly sponsored by an Oil company.
Located in Saudi Arabia and also the Free Award,
Internet draw is held twice in a year and it is organized, because we want
to encourage the use of Internet round the globe
and as a new year, so this ₤250,000.00 is like a New Year gift to our
lucky winners. So I will like to congratulate you
because you will have the pleasure to thank God, for what you have achieved
something great at the beginning of 2006.
And we are proud to say that over 150 Million Pounds Sterling is won
annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


DECLARATION:I
(DR/MR/MRS/MS)..........................................................................................................
hereby declare that the above data are true of me. I shall adhere strictly
to intructions aimed at facilitating the
processing and transfer of my prize money to my designated account and in
event of any unforeseen circumstance my next of kin
has the full rigth to collect my price.

Signature..............................................................

Date..............................................

Thank you once more for your participating with us once more.

Your Sincerely,
Mr., George Peterson,
Public Relations Officer.


OUR Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr.
Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking
Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department),
Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal Representative),
Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman), Mr.
Chris Moritz(International Relation Officer).

_________________________________________________________________
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