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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 desk of CEO uniair lottery" <uniair_lottery@she.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: oscaredward@safe-mail.net
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:57:17 +0700
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!

From:The desk of the CEO
UniAiR annual lottery program
Winning number:0610060645200385
Serial net batch number:187561691619

Attn:

Congratulations,you have been selected as one of the lucky winners in our annual new year lottery program through our internet balloting email extracting and screening machine,your application was applied and processed by our internet balloting email extracting and screening machine which randomly extracts and screens millions of email adresses around the world.

This lottery program is held annually as part of UniAiR social new year lottery promotions.You are the 2nd among our 5 lucky winners and you have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of USD1,003,198.5{One million,three thousand one hundred and ninety-eight U.S dollars,5 cent}

Your winning number is:0610060645200385 and your serial net batch number is:187561691619.Please note that there were no ticket sellouts in our lottery program,all our past and present winners were selected randomly through the internet balloting email extracting and screening machine.

In this regards you are adviced to forward the following requirements urgently to Mr. Oscar Edward by email scanning attachments for faster processing, to enable begin the process of your winning documents and money prize transfer:

1. FULL NAME:--------------------------------------------------------
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:--------------------------------------------------------------
3. PRESENT ADDRESS:-----------------------------------------------------------------
4. DATE OF BIRTH:----------------------------------------------------------------------
5. OCCUPATION:-------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. TEL/FAX NO:---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Endeavour to quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily. Meanwhile, for security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Important Notice:

The prize money will be remmited to you in full as soon as we receive all the requirements listed above.Please inform Mr. Oscar the means you which to receive your prize money,we prefer sending our winners bank cheques by courier service but we can also send you the money prize by bank transfer if you wish.

We shall be anticipating your reply soon.

Thanks

Mr. Srivimon Ointasar
UniAiR SouthEast Asia Zonal office
WEBSITE: http//www.uniair.com.tw

N.B:REPLY THIS EMAIL WINNING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE OR SEND SMS ONLY TO THE CLAIMS AGENT ASSIGNED TO HANDLE YOUR MONEY TRANSFER PROCESS AND DOCUMENTS,HE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH YOUR MONEY REMMITANCE AND DOCUMENTS PROCESSING,HIS CONTACT DETAILS ARE LISTED BELOW:

MR. OSCAR EWARD.
EMAIL:oscaredward@safe-mail.net
PHONE: +66-894928430


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