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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: Laura Curtis <agent10010lauracurtis@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:05:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: CLAIM



The National Lottery
P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369


Dear Mr/Mrs/miss....... Freda Meyerlich,

This is a millennium scientific computer game in which email addresses
were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging Internet
users;therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for the game.
However, your email address was attached to ticket number 56475600545 188 with serial number 5368/02 . which eventually won the lottery in the first category of the draws.
This is from a total cash Price of £976,290. shared amongst the (5) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus 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 promotion takes place weekly.

Therefore, you have won a lottery jackpot Price awards of
£195,258.

We are working according to banking laws including Germany banks. You dont have to worry about the banking laws in German.

Have you contacted the bank? endeavour to always keep us updated on banking proceedings.

Best Regards
LAURA CURTIS
Fiduciary Agent,



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