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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: "good locuk" <sssll_41@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:08:41 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING

                            The National Lottery, PO Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL.                       
       The National Lottery Logo                                                                                                
REFNº:EGS/2251256003/02                                                                       Date:01/08/2006
BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD
winning: 60/84/27/17/36   
FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
                                  
                  AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
   
  U.K National Lottorey wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain held on.01th of August 2006.Your email account have been picked as a winner of  FIVE HURNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($550,000). This results is now released to you on 01/08/06.
 All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 union associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place bianually i.e twice in a year.
All winning must be claimed not later than 30TH of Septerber, 2006. After this date 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 contact the funds department in National Lottery Head Quarters.
You are to contact the funds department via email which is markcollinsagency_1@yahoo.com and you are to quote your Ref: number and your email address for confirmation of your winnings.
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program.

Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International funds Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).MRS JULIE VAN HANS (VICE PRESIDENT)
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You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize


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