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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: "NATIONAL LOTTERY" <info_1@o2.pl>
Reply-To: "NATIONAL LOTTERY" <overseaofficeclaim@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:17:23 -0700
Subject: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345
FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Dear Lucky Winner,
BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to notify you the draw (#1053) of the UK NATIONA! L
LOTTERY,Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on 21st July,
2006.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe,
America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and
North & South America as part of our international promotions programme
conducted twice in a week to encourage prospective overseas entries. The
internet emailing diea was used, since most people do are not able to
purchase tickets and play outside the UK. We hope with part of your prize
awards, you will take part in our! subsequent lottery jackpots.
The result of our computer draw (#1051) selected your name and email address
attached to e-ticket number: 56475612545 187 with Serial number 5368/03 drew
the lucky numbers:

4 5 16 19 21 49 20

which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 6.You
have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £691,252 (Six hundred
and ninety one thousand, two hundred and fifty two pounds sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/07.This is from a total cash prize of
£2,073,756 (Two million, seventy three thousand, seven hundred and fifty six
pounds sterling), to be shared by you and two others, in this category i.e.
Match 6.You can check your winning by matching your lucky numbers on our
result checking page in the link below
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk!
/player/p/results/winCheck/winCheckerStart.do
Your prize award has been insured in your email and is ready for claims. To
begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent for Overse! as Lottery! Winners within a
period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing of your
winning and remittance to your designated bank account after all statutory
obligations have been satisfactorily dispensed with.
This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £691,252 (Six hundred
and ninety one thousand, two hundred and fifty two pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period
may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the!
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented below sending the batch
and reference numbers and these ! information! s below for quick
verifications and release of funds. bet ween the hour s of 8.00am - 7.30pm
on Monday through Sunday

OVERSEAS CLAIMS UNIT.
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr. James Kelvin
Email: overseaofficeclaim@yahoo.com.hk

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure
to avoid double claiming and unwarr! anted abuse of this program. Any
lottery double claim dedected by our monitoring committee will lead to the
Uk national lottery cancelling the winnings. making a loss for both the real
winner, and the fake (intended) claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. Calister Green.!
The National! Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
COPYRIGHT ¿ 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED.


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