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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: "larry moore" <ukdraws@gawab.com>
Reply-To: paulkent_49@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:07:49 GMT
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

The National
Lottery Logo     
U.K National Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service

28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
UNITED KINDOM                                                          
Date:08/07/06

                               WINNING NOTIFICATION/HAPPY NEW YEAR
   U.K National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on 1st of Jan. 2006.Your email account have been picked as a winner of TWO HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS (£ 250,000). This results is now released to you on 8/07/06.

 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer ballot draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion is part of this years uk national lottery email users bonaza. U.K National Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promotional lottery is the tenth of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

 All winning must be claimed not later than eight working days of this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will be retured 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.

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 program,For the release of your winning,kindly submit the completed form to your claims agent:
 
*IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:
 
*Name of Winner:
*Address:
*City/State:
*Nationality:
*Sex:
*Email Address:
*Tel:
*Occupation:
*Next of Kin:
*Age:
*AMOUNT WON:
 
Contact your claims agent at the National Lottery Head Quarters with the below details:

Name Of Agent: Mr LARRY MOORE
Email Adress: paulkent_49@yahoo.com
Tel:  +44 702 406 3991
Tel:   +44 703 1905 733

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

Accept my hearty congratulations once again
Mr. ERICK KENT
Zonal Coordinator
U.K National Lottery.
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