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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: "uk lotry" <uklotry3@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:00:05 +0200
Subject: WORLDWIDE PROMOTION

Yahoo! UK
&
Ireland 
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  Go to fullsize image WORLDWIDE PROMOTION
 
Congrats,  
 
Yahoo! is a commercial portal to sites on the World Wide Web. Yahoo! today includes many features not found in the original site, but retains at its core two basic services: a categorized, clickable, hierarchically classified list of human-selected Web sites and a search engine (qv) . As part of our scheme to thank our numerous users, on the directive of our ceo Mr Jerry and David, an online promo was introduced.
 
We happily announce to you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of YAHOO UK Annual Promo. The online YAHOO UK Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 17,922 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
 
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of nine(9) winners in the sixth category for the third prize with the following data:
 
Ref Number: YP/941OYI/04
Batch Number: 12/25/0034
Ticket Number:
56475600545 188
 
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) each from the total payout.
 
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements,  verifications and satisfactory report.  Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Southern Africa booklet representative office in Africa as indicated in your play coupon.
 
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company  for Sixth category winners with the information below:
 
MR. JOHN LEHAM 
 
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
# 25 RICHARDS RYLAAN, AUCKLAND PARK, 0083
P.O. Box 524, AUCKLANDPARK
JOHANNESBURG 2001
SOUTH AFRICA
PLEASE CONTACT
MR.JOHN LEHAM
 
HotLine'  27-760 84610.
Office Number  0044 70318 90941.
You are to give the below informations to the claim's agent for verification via email
 
1.Full Names & Address:
2.Sex/Age:
3.Nationality:
4.Country Of Residence:
5.Mobile & Fax number:
6.Occupation:
7.Your Reference:
8.Batch number:
 
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 21 days from notification date. After the expiration all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
 
You are to keep all winning information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
 
ALL REPLIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
 
Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
David Squells(Mr)
Yahoo Worldwide Promo Coordinator.
 
 
LAST WINNERS ON PRESTIOUS
LOTTERY
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