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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: "The National Lottery/ Notice Centre" <centre1_notice9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: agent_max_joseph1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:23:10 +0000
Subject: End of year result powered by (TOPAZ)

THE COCA COLA AND THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY AFFILIATE TO THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held in Brasil on (18th Augt, 2006) by The National lottery and Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £526,856.00 each on the THE COCA\'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION

However the results were released on the 20th July, 2006 and your email was attached to ticket number (56475600545 188) and Serial Numbers (5368 027)

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 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.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

In view of this, your  £526,856.00 (Five Hundred And Twenty Six Thousand Eight Hundred And Fifty Six Pounds Sterlings) would be released to you by any of our payment Unit in Europe.

In other to claim your £526,856.00 prize winning you are to contact our Promotion manager through email or fax for prompt collection of your fund from the designated Payment Unit.

(CONTACT FIDUCIARY AGENT OF THE OVERSEAS CLAIMS DEPARTMENT FROM THE NATIONAL LOTTERY QUARTERS)

The National Lottery Quarters
Overseas Claims Unit
Name: Dr. Joseph Maxwell Anderson
Tell: +447024055313

You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number.(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this Lottery.

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Promotion manager.

You can go to The National Lottery online result site and input your Serial number at the sign in page to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown,
Serial number :- 5368 027
Online result site :-website: //uk-national-onlines-lottery.co.uk/


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