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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: national_promouk9@comcast.net (NATIONAL PROMO)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 12:32:17 +0000
Subject: UK National Service

UK National Lottery Service
2 Lansdowne Row,Berkeley Square
PO Box 1010 Liverpool L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
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Ref: UK/839030X2/14
Batch:065/088/XY24
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25th of May 2007

Dear Winner,


Congratulations Lucky Winner,
On Behalf of the Screening Committee of United Kingdom National Lottery, I wish
to formally inform you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and
Verification Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your winning in
accordance with the United Kingdom National Lottery Terms and Conditions. Hence
you are therefore cleared for payment by the verifications and fund release
department at the United Kingdom National Lottery Headquarters and your winnings
has been duly signed and approved for release to you by the legal attorney to
the United Kingdom National Lottery. All winners for the online version of the
United Kingdom National Lottery Online promotions were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses
of individual and corporate bodies listed online as part of our international
promotion to promote international co-operation between the United Kingdom and
other countries worldwide
Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address,
with serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers
08-12-13-19-26-28(bonus no.11),subsequently you won the lottery in the
2nd category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
£1,000,000.00(one million Great British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to
file XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize of
£10,000,000.00,shared
amongs the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus
bonus.
You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims(fiducial agent)
Department below,quote your winning numbers

Fiducial Agent
Max Raph
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Phone: +44-7031949372 or +44-7031894946
E-mail: nationalpromo@yahoo.co.uk
You are required to provide him with the information below for
verification purposes:

1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex::
7.Nationality:
8.Telephone Number:
9.Ticket Number(above):
10.Reference Number(above):
11.Batch Number(ab ove):

Best wishes:
mrs juliet marrow
(Processing Manager)

Please note that this email and any files that may be attached to it is/are
confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity
(is) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying or
disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable
law(s).Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not
relate to official business of NATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be
understood to be neither given nor endorsed by NATIONAL LOTTERY finance and
insurance when addressed to concern finance and insurance clients; and any
information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of
the governing client's contract(s).

United Kingdom National Lottery
COPYRIGHT © 1994-2007 ALL RIGHT RESERVED

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