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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: "raballah@terra.es" <raballah@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:34:01 +0100 (MET)
Subject: WINNER BRITISHONLINE PROMOTION



GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X)

The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the BRITISH INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERYonline Sweepstakes International program held the 30th january
2007.It is yet to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475300545 188 with Serial number 5368/05 drew the lucky numbers: 4, 10, 23, 36, 37, 49 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e JACKPOT bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the(3)lucky winners in
this category i.e JACKPOT bonus. All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This is part
of the Country's Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 The L1.5bn Olympic lottery


The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National
Lottery may have seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the
Olympics. The Lottery must raise L1.5bn over the next seven years to
pay its share of the public money going into the Olympics. A further
L650m will be raised from council tax in London and
another L250m from the London Development Agency, while similar sums
will be raised from ticket sales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale
of television rights.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your L1,666,667 will be released to you our
payment office in UK. Our European agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part
of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted
abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for
your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Name: Andrew Gordon
Official Email: c_officer145@myway.com
Tell: +44-701 115 0142


FILL CLAIMS PROCESSING FORM

1)full names......................
2)Winning numbers ...............
3)Winning email address ...................
4)Telephone and fax numbers .................
5)Nationality ...............
6)COntact Address ...............
7)Occupation ...............
8)Amount won ...............
9)Date of Birth ...............
10)Place of Birth .....................

Congratulations from me and members of staff of BRITISH INTERNATIONAL
LOTTERY.


Yours faithfully,
Florence Moore(Mrs)
Online coordinator
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.






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