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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: "ukn lottery" <uknl7020@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:45:55 -0700
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Support Center
Bevan House
51 Bevan Avenue
Conwy LL28 5AF United Kingdom
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: UKNL/26510460038/07
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

AWARD NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement
of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS held on 26th March 2007 in London.Your email address was attached
to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5063-11 and drew the
lucky numbers 43-11-44-37 10-43, and consequently WON you the lottery in the
2nd category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay Of £
500,000.00 British Pounds(GBP)in cash credited to file REF
NO.UKNL/26510460038/07. This is from total prize money Of £ 2,000,000.00
British Pounds(GBP) shared among the four International winners in this
category.All participants were selected randomly from WorldWide Website
through computer draw ballot system and extracted from over 1,345,256
personal email addresses as part of InternationalPromotions Program, which
is conducted annually.In view of this, your £ 500,000.00 British Pounds(GBP)
would be released to you by our approved payment center in London.The claims
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 claims is
processedand your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to
claim your prize winnings.This is part of our precautionarymeasures to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our claims
agent:
Mr. DANIEL STEVENSON
#195 Edgware Road,London W2 1EY United Kingdom.
TEL: +447031959558
FAX: +447039400254
EMAIL: claimsagent_dan@yahoo.co.uk
For due processing and remittance of your prize winnings, please remember to
quote your Reference and Batch numbers in your Correspondences with the
agent.Remember, all prize winnings must be claimed not later than two weeks
from today.After this day,all funds will be returned as
unclaimed.Furthermore, should there be anyChange of your address; do inform
the claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once again.
Sincerely,
Mrs Irene Bristow
Zonal Co-ordinator

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