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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: "YAHOOLOTTERY LONDON" <ylt_014@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:20:26 +0100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS ,(YOUR E MAIL I D)HAS WON OUR PROMO CONGRATULATIONS ,(YOUR E MAI

                                                               YAHOO! LOTTERY INTL INC
                                                               2 Barley House
          
                                                     Harold Road
                                                               Sutton,Greater London                                                                 Sm1 4te                                                                United kingdom.
                      
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
Date:11/17/2006  
Ref: ILP/HW 47509/02
Batch:05/763638/IPD
Winning no: 02 10 11 28 36 47   33

               
Dear Sir/Madam,                                                                                  
      YAHOO! LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
 
We happily announce to you the draw (#996) of the YAHOO! LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held 30th  October 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with  Serialnumber 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:02 10 11 28  36  47and 33 Bonus Ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5
Lotto Ball number 2Lotto Ball number 10Lotto Ball number 11Lotto Ball number 28Lotto Ball number 
36Lotto Ball number 47 Lotto Bonus Ball number 33

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GPS
?136,855.00 (ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE POUNDS STERLING)in cash credited to file  KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of GBP?1,505,405 shared amongst the ELEVEN (11)lucky winners in this category .
Without all partioners appling or having the knowledge.This promotion takes place montnly which is promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to
the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
 
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 ?136,855.00, (one hunred and thirty six thousand eight hundred and fifty five pounds sterlings)would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European representative agent has immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds, contact their office immediately with the below email address.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your hardcopy of your winners certificate and other promotional gift item and prize money are delivered to you through a bank draft cheque which you will cash in any bank of your choice in your country,through a courier delivery company,whose contact will be given to you by the executive fudiciary office.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
 
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
All reply,correspondence and required personal data as written here in order to this notification should be sent to your claims agent on the email contact below immediatly.for further processing details.
Barr SANDRA MURPHY (Esq)
Email:
www.officeofprocessingboard@yahoo.co.uk
FULLNAME....................
DATE OF BIRTH..............
ADDRESS....................
SEX.........................
AGE........................
NATIONALITY...........
OCCUPATION.............
TELEPHONE............
DATE..................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO...........................APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.
 
 Please quote your reference,batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your above stated datas to help locate your file easily.For security reasons,
we advice all winners to keep this information confidential(VERY SECRET) from the public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this programme by some unscrupulous elements,equally to guard against nonparticipant or our official personnel taking undue advantage of this programme.
 
Note that,all winnings must be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME(on or before 29th of December 2006);otherwise all unclaimed funds will be returned to the yahoo lottery treasury and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!! 
 
Yours in service,
                        
Executive Claims /Processing Agent (Yahoo! Lottery Inc).
                          
Barr.Joe Blumbleburg
(Executive Co-ordinator, Yahoo! lottery inc)
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Barr Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman)
.

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.


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