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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: "GOLDEN FORTUNES LOTTERY" <fortunes_1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: phillipjan04@lycos.com
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:48:29 +0000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A UK LOTTO WINNER

GOLDEN FORTUNES LOTTERY
106 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
MORGATE EC1
LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.

RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSMENT ADVICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of, 5th June, 2006 of
winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; UNITED
KINGDOM/INTERNATIONAL,PROGRAMS held on 20th December, 2005. Your email
address attached to ticket number 023-56678230954, drew the lucky numbers
7-14-21-42-49-59,batch number 6858/UK and consequently won the lottery in
the 1st category. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of
2,500.000.00 British pounds (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) is
credited to file LOTTERY REF NO.SGIL/763276/03.

This is from total prize money of 20,000,000.00 POUNDS shared among the
forty national winners in categories C with serial
number:IL/FLW/12-C033721192. All participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 company email addresses and
30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America,
Europe, North America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program,
which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a financial bank company
insured in your FILE REFERENCE. Due to the mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous
acts by participants of this program. Our group of philanthropist headed by
the British government promoted this lottery program. We hope with a part
of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes
#10,000,000 million british pounds International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact and attention your file/claim officer:

MR.PHILIP JAN.
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER
106 BOROUGH HIGH STREET
MORGATE EC1
LONDON.
UNITED KINGDOM.
REPLY mail TO :EMAIL: phillipjan04@lycos.com

Please be aware that your Paying Authority will Effect Payment Swiftly upon
satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by our processing
Agent; that would be designated to your file. For due processing and
remittance of your winning prize to your designated account of your choice.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th July. 2006.
After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of
your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for Being
part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is
AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

Sincerely,
NAOMI VANDIJK. (Lottery Coordinator)
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will result to
disqualification.
OUR Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr.
Franklyn paul mpard(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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