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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: <christy_ivan@p-owmf.org>
Reply-To: christyivan1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:57:56 -0600
Subject: CONGRATULATION, Online Program held on 25-September-2006.


FROM: PROMOTION DEPARTMENT
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
LUKI BUILDING,
80 King William Street,
London EC4R 9AN,
United Kingdom.
 
Attention: Sir/ Madam,
 
We happily announce to you the draw of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
Online Program held on 25-September-2006.
 
Your email address attached to reference Number: 208, ZX, 11,663/UK
with Ticket Number: 99/bnk/533. Which subsequently won you one of the
Jackpot cash prizes.
 
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£2,500,000.00(Two Million Five Hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds)
in cash credited to file L/UK/010/71/2/33 All participants for the
online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through
a computer draw system and extracted from over 50,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
 
A random number generator using a proprietary random number generation
algorithm will select exactly 6reference numbers from the range 1-24
with ticket winning number from the range 1-24 To file for your claim,
please contact our claims director via contact information below:
 
MR. BILLY BRADFIELD,
CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT,
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
LUKI BUILDING,
80 King William Street,
London EC4R 9AN,
United Kingdom.
Tel:+44 703 194 8432
Tel:+44 702 406 7317
Fax:+44 871 715 1559
Email:claimsdirector2_lotteryukinter@yahoo.co.uk
   Cc:claimsdepartment_lotteryukinternational@web2mail.com
  
     
Congratulation once again from me, and entire members of staff of the
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL and it is our hope that you participate in
any of our international programs in the nearest future.
 
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
CHRISTY IVAN,
PROMOTION DEPARTMENT,
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL 
Email: christyivan1@yahoo.co.uk
 
PLEASE NOTE:
YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATIONS FROM PUBLIC AS WE WILL NOT
ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE
PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF ALL OUR WINNER.THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA
PROTECTION ACT OF THE LOTTERY UK INTERNA

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