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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?Julie=20Van=20Hans?= <juliehans45@yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: e_brown01@myway.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 03:52:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Congratulations!!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: juliehans45@yahoo.com.au

The National Lottery

PO Box 1010

Liverpool

L70 1NL



FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE



National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international programme by Great Britain Your email account have been picked as a winner of £4,528,000.00


This results is now released your email address attached to Draw 1034 Monday 5th June 06 Jackpot 04-09-10-19-24-37 Bonus ball 28 participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses users.



Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme,For the release of your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than two Weeks of Acknowledgment. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as Unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

to your claims agent listed below.



Mr. Eamon Brown

Programs & Events Department

email: e_brown01@myway.com

Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.


Yours Sincerely,

Mrs Julie Van Hans



- Julie Van Hans


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