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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: "british winners" <britainacredicted_lott82@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:18:45 +0200
Subject: Lotto Winners

| | |

 The National
Lottery Logo           
THE UK LOTTO COMPANY
UK HEAD OFFICE
SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS
CENTRAL LONDON
ENGLAND
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT
.

 
 
Dear Lucky Winner, 

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the UK LOTTRY draw held on the 20th of JULY 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly
selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.Your email address
emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK
Lotto Draw.
 
Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 pounds (one million pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:
(i)   winning numbers:  11-13-26-34-44-48
(ii)  email ticket number:  FL754/22/76
(iii) lotto code number:    FL09622UK
(iv)  the file Ref number:  FL/04/736207152/UK
numbers  and bonus ball number 

  numbers Ball
number 11Ball number 13Ball number 26Ball
 number
 34Ball number 44Ball number 48 and bonus ball numberBonus Ball number 2
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of
GBP1,000,000 Pounds (OneMillion Pounds Only) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured  and will be transferred to you upon meeting  our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. 


 
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings,Please contact the
underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of
your winnings:
Mr.Chris Thomas
International Claim Consultant
The UKlotto Company
Tel: +44 703 183 4062
Tel/: +44-703 183 3706
Fax:  +44 -870 479 3698 
Email:
         


N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;
1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.
2.Winners should send to claim officer account detail or address where they
want their prize paid or sent.
3.Winners must send thier names,address,telephone number and means of
identification (international passport or drivers licence)to claim officer,
via email or fax, to process the immediate payment of your prize.



Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

John Smith
Manager,Awards
Promotions Manager
The UK Lotto company
UNITED KINGDOM

 
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
 
Yours in service,
                         
Mrs. Grace Bruce
Executive Co-ordinator(U.K Lottery Inc).
 
         
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman).
 
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Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers, Mckintosh and a conglomeration of other
international IT companies.The freelotto internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.


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