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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: "Yahoo Lottery Bonanza" <andersonmason23@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: zonalcoordinator_andersonmason@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:59:47 -0700
Subject: Yahoo Annual Award (£1,500,000)

Yahoo! News - Lottery Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £1,500,000 Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
 
Yahoo!!! Mail announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Coporation program held on the 5th of January, 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 511-01555176-208 with Serial number 5000/03 drew the lucky numbers: 16-8-10-16-25-9, which subsequently won you the lottery prize in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of GBP£45 Million , shared amongst the first Thirty (30) lucky winners in this category.
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Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in UK (www.yahoo.co.uk) as indicated in our annual play coupon conducted by the Yahoo Coporartion  UK. In view of this, your GBP£1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) would be released to you by our verification unit / payment center in UK as stated by the Yahoo Coporartion .
 
Subsequently,Our verification unit will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with them. All participants were selected randomly (Electronically) from the 'World Wide Web' site through a computer ballot system and extracted from over 100,000 company addresses. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to a designated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
 
PROCEDURES TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
 
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.........YBN 09945
Lotto number.........YLN 09946
Winning number......YWN 09947
 
Yahoo™s  Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:
 
Verification Unit: Mr.Ford Kuller / Mrs.Tracy Brown
Phone: +44 701 112 8112 
        +44 701 112 8115
        +44 701 114 8141
        +44 704 570 4774
        +44 704 570 6300
        +44 701 114 8144
Fax:    +44 709 288 7065
 
Note that all claim process and clearance procedures must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double claim. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.
 
Transfer Modality:
The Yahoo Online management has informed that winners funds should be strictly on telegraphic bank transfer and they are made responsible to bear the responsibility that will aid the transfer process of their funds to their various local designated bank account.
 
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of Yahoo Lottery Corporation UK.
 
Yours Faithfully,

 
Mr.Anderson Mason
ZONAL  CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.co.uk
http://www.yahoo.co.uk

 

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