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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: "ed harris" <replynotice04@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:17:03 -0900
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON THE FINAL DRAW OF THE NATIONAL LOTTERY 2006 !!!

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMOTION

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.uk-national-award-office.co.uk
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION:

Dear Lucky Winner,

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to notify you of winning draw # 1032 of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held
on 27th of Sept 2006.

HOW PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a
pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from Europe,
America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, parts of Africa, and
North & South America as part of our international promotions programme
conducted once in a week to encourage prospective overseas entries.

The internet emailing idea was used, since most people are not able to
purchase tickets and play outside the UK. We hope you being a winner, will
take part in our subsequent lottery jackpots.

The result of our computer draw # 1032 selected your name and email address
attached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02.
This e-ticket drew the lucky numbers:

21 32 41 42 43 46 (Bonus 17)
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 6 of
the Free Category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000.00( Five
Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £1,500,000.00(One
Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's), to be shared by you and
two others, in this category I.e. Match 6 of the Free Category.

Your prize award has been issued with your email address and is ready for
claims. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised to expeditiously
contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lottery Winners
within a period of 21 days (date of this email inclusive) for the processing
of your winning and remittance to you after all statutory obligations have
been satisfactorily dispensed with.

This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls within our European
booklet
representative office in Europe.

In view of this, your £500,000.00( Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling's)
would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Please be informed that claims not processed within the stipulated period
may be forfeited to the pool without further notice.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented below sending the batch
and reference numbers and these information's below for quick verifications
and release of funds between the hours of 8.00am - 7.30pm on Monday -
Sunday.

Overseas Claims Unit
United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr. Ed Harris
Email:Claimsofficer006@uk2.net


Dear Winner,

We need your particulars for record purposes. Attached here is a copy of our
verifications form,please fill accordingly and submit it to your claims
agent so as to proceed with your winnings.

1. FULL NAMES:_______________________________________________________

2. DATE OF BIRTH________________________________________

3. SEX:_________________________

4. MARITAL STATUS:_____________________________________

5.CONTACT ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

6.COUNTRY:_______________________________

7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________

8.OCCUPATION:_________________________________

9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF

COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_______________________________________

10.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:______________________________________

11.WINNING NUMBER:____________________________________________

12.REF NUMBER: ____________________________________

13.BATCH NUMBER: ___________________________

14.AMOUNT WON: _____________________

15.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS WINNER :________________________

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, our agent will send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Our winners are assured of the uttermost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Any lottery
double claim detected by our monitoring committee will lead to the Uk
national lottery cancelling the winnings. making a loss for both the real
winner, and the fake (intended) claimer.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, we remain,
Very Truly Yours,

Mr. Campbell Grant
(Lottery Co-ordinator)

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