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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" <wgerri.lotteryo13@rediffmail.com>
Date: 30 Jun 2007 05:31:58 -0000
Subject: !!!CONGATULATIONS! YOU ARE A WINNER OF YAHOO LOTTERY 2007!!!


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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Messenger You won $800.000! Yahoo! Mail Congratulates you!







Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of&nbsp;5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to&nbsp;inform you that you have won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollars ($800,000) for the&nbsp;&nbsp;month of&nbsp; June,&nbsp;2007.&nbsp;Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every&nbsp;month.&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
YAHOO,&nbsp;collects all the mail&nbsp;ID of the people that&nbsp;are online&nbsp; on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people&nbsp;every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are&nbsp; congratulating you for been one of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of somemultinational companies as part of their social responsibility to thecitizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our&nbsp;British representative office in&nbsp;United Kingdom&nbsp;, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$800,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.2
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of yearhigh stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers..........
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
&nbsp;Lotto number........................Lwh09446
&nbsp;Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly&nbsp;contact the&nbsp;Fiduciary Agent&nbsp;at &nbsp;this email address ( mrleonardgreg@yahoo.co.uk,fiduciarydepartment@msn.com)&nbsp;&nbsp;You are required to forward him with the following details:

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON........................................................

As soon as you contact the Attorney, he will advise&nbsp;you on what to do in order to get your prize money.Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this informationconfidential from the public until your claim is processed and yourprize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoiddouble claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

&nbsp;
Dr WILLIAM GERRI
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staffYahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com




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