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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: "Australian International Lottery program" <claimagent147@myway.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:34:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: REPLY FROM THE AGENT.


2006 Australian International Lottery programmer.========================================================================================Hello,
I am in receipt of your mail. First of all accept my congratulations as you were among the lucky ones to have won in the second category of this cash prize and your email address was selected through a computer balloting system drawn.I wish to inform you that there are procedures to the award payment and the procedures must be followed in total in all payments. I will guild you in this procedure. To proceed with the claim of the funds I will have to tell you some of the procedures to enable your claim to be faster and I request this information’s below:
YOUR FULL NAME ...HOME ADDRESS ...NATIONALITY ...PHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER ...AGE ...GENDER ...RELIGION ... OCCUPATION ...
The above information’s will be used to secure your cash prize from the lottery firm as the legal winner and owner of this prize amount. The information will also qualify and validate your winning for payment As soon as I receive the information's I shall send to you the contact of the payment bank were you will received your funds. So that final arrangement would be made for the payment of your cash prize.
Please I want you to always be quick with your response to my mail. I have some other lucky winner to attend. I await your quick response to this mail with the above requested information. Please include all the needed information while replying this mail. Please indicate the necessary code to your telephone and fax number. Congratulations once again as I await your prompt response. Please respond in English.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Oniko Adams.Claim Agent.Phone:011-234-80358-28878.

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