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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: Kenn McFish <claims_kennmcfish@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:04:10 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FILL AND RETURN


Attention: Madras House,

Thanks for the fast response, your email address was selected online as a winner of 950,000 Great Britain Pounds. Your winnings converted into United states dollars is 1,750,571.24 USD.

You have been Selected in the UKON 2006 Lottery Program. Our lottery program selection has finally been performed today which was held at the Marina office. UK Promotion is a joint Euro/America private lottery registered and organized in accordance with the World Lottery Regulation act. We the The National Lottery organizing committee are pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email application. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky Numbers:14 . 33 . 36 . 39 . 42 . 46 . [13] Bonus Ball which selected your email as the 2nd winner of our lottery program you have consequently won the lottery program in the first batch.

For futher verification kindly fill the form below and return back to us.

VERIFICATION FORM

SURNAME.................MIDDLE NAME....................

COUNTRY.......................ADDRESS.......................

WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS...........................

SEX............................................

PHONE NUMBER...........FAX NUMBER................

AGE...........OCCUPATION................

We await your response with the verification form so that we can issue your winnings for delivery or transfer.

Regards

Mr Poe Figgs


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