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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: "UniAir" <"webmas..."@my-ste.demon.co.uk> (may be fake)
Reply-To: uniairthai@walla.com
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:05:12 +0700
Subject: Please contact Mr.Somchai urgently.

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 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 addresses around the world.
This lottery program is held annually as part of UniAiR 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 advised to forward the following requirements urgently to Mr.Somchai by email scanning attachments for faster processing, to enable us begin the processing of your winning documents and money transfer:
(1.)Write in full, your telephone number, postal and residential address.
(2.)Scanned copy of your recent passport photograph.
(3.)Scanned copy of the main information page of your national passport or I.D card or driving license.
(4.)Acceptance fee: US$1,085 (One-Thousand & Eighty-Five U.S Dollars) This fee should be payed through Western Union Money Transfer addressed to the second secretary of UniAiR. Providing the above requirements will assure you your winning certificate and prize money bank cheque which we shall post to you through express courier service.
Important Notice:
The prize money will be remitted to you in full as soon as we receive all the requirements listed above. Please inform Mr.Somchai the means you wish to receive your prize money, we prefer sending our winners bank cheques by courier service but we can also send you the prize money by bank transfer or Western Union Money Transfer if you wish.
We shall be anticipating your reply soon.
Thanks
Mr.Bichnga Tran
UniAiR SouthEast Asia Zonal office.
N.B: REPLY THIS EMAIL WINNING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE ONLY TO THE CLAIMS AGENT ASSIGNED TO HANDLE YOUR MONEY TRANSFER PROCESS AND DOCUMENTS, HE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH YOUR MONEY REMITTANCE AND DOCUMENTS PROCESSING, HIS CONTACT DETAILS ARE LISTED BELOW:
Mr.Uchida Somchai

EMAIL: uniairthai@walla.com <mailto:uniairthai@walla.com> uniairth@yahoo.com <http://us.f588.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=uniairth@yahoo.com> and dv_lottory_uniair@yahoo.com <http://us.f588.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dv_lottory_uniair@yahoo.com>
PHONE: +66-869717056
WEBSITE: http//www.uniair.com.tw
N.B: Please note and save the phone number and email addresses listed above for future correspondence at anytime with Mr.Somchai.
For strict security reasons, endeavor to reply this email winning notification message only to the 3 email addresses: uniairth@yahoo.com <http://us.f588.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=uniairth@yahoo.com> dv_lottory_uniair@yahoo.com <http://us.f588.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dv_lottory_uniair@yahoo.com> and uniairthai@walla.com <mailto:uniairthai@walla.com>




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