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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: FREE LOTTO <www.info_contact_uk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 14 Nov 2006 18:38:29 +0200
Subject: FREELOTTO ( YOU HAVE WON)

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit








THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY

105b WOODHILL ROAD

WOOLWICH

SE18 5HW

LONDON



Dear Winner,



We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 11th of Nov 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 Free Lotto Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been

approved for a total pay out of E1.5 000,000 (One Million, Five Hundred

Thousand Euro) only.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11

(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76

(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK

(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK



Please contact the under listed operations manager as soon as possible

for the immediate release of your winnings:



Mr.Brian Doyle.

The Free lotto Company

TEL:+44-7011137953

E-mail:www.info_contact_uk@yahoo.co.uk



Please note the steps to claim your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the

operations manager.

2.Winners must send their names,address,and telephone number and means

of identification (international passport or driver’s license)to the

operations manager to process immediate payment of their prize.

3.And due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep

this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been

processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this programme.



Once again on behalf of all our staff,



CONGRATULATIONS!!!



Sincerely,

Ronald Roes.

Announcer,

The FreeLotto Company

UK & Europe





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