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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: Williams Wilcox <wilcox_agent3@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:09:11 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE!!!




FREE AWARD LOTTERY COMPANY INC.

FREE AWARD DEPT.
16 Broad Street,
Woolich, Middle Essex
United Kingdom.
London.
www.freelotto.com
Dear,
We wish you our hearty congratulations for been our 2nd category winner in our, promotions programs that was held in July 2007. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 98,000 names from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, Africa, and North & South America.
As part of our international promotions program conducted annually to encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your winnings, you will take part in our end of year lotto jackpot of 1.3 Billion pounds and you stand a chance of winning 12 million British pounds. As a category 2nd winner, your email was picked by a computer balloting system powered by Microsoft, where only email addresses were soughed from a total numbers of 30,000 email addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program consequently won in the 2nd Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum
pay out of 5,000,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for 2nd categories winners. This is from the total prize money of 46,000,000.00 pounds shared
among the eight international winners in the 2nd category.

But before I proceed, let me introduce my self I am Williams Wilcox,
Your accredited agent and it is my responsibility to verify the eight winners
From second categories which you are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

Note: It is not in my capacity to pay winners their prizes, but as the lottery company representative I am only directed to confirm your winning in formations to check if you are a true free award lotto winner.

Mr. Williams Wilcox
Direct Contact Telephone Number: +44-702-407-7710
Web Site:www.freelotto.com

You are expected to send this office your personal information along side your winning information÷Õ to enable me prepare your transfer order .This is also part
of our security protocol to discourage unscrupulous act and avoid double claiming
of prizes like we have experienced in our previous lottery programs. So Endeavour
to send your complete and correct winning information÷Õ.


NAME...................................

CONTACT ADDRESS...............................

COUNTRY OF RESISDENCE...........................

OCCUPATION................................

AGE.............................

TELEPHONE / FAX NUMBER.....................

TICKET NUMBER..........................................

AGENT ID NUMBER...................................

LUCKY BALL NUMBERS........................


SEX...........................

MARITAL STATUS...................

So you are expected to comply with the terms and conditions of this program, so that you can proceed to the next step and final stage

You are to abide to this Terms and Conditions of the Lottery Company. So that you will not be disqualified.

1, your winning prize is NON DEDUCTABLE

2, this process is vital and urgent following the instruction from our clients that all prize money should be claimed on or before your deadline date.

Once again accept our congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
For more conviction, that this lottery company is not a HOAX we have decided to put it on the WORLD NEWS. So you are to watch your T.V because the announcement will be made on BBC WORLD NEWS UPDATE 31st of July @ 13:07:33 -0700 (GMT) Do not miss it watch out. And also I sent you our jackpot winner who has complied to all the terms and conditions of the lottery company and the Bank and he cash has been sent to him.




You can call for more enquires.
+44-702-407-7418.

Note: That you are supposed to claim your prize not later than 14 working days, because we have limited time to your deadline and we want to start off another program middle of this year. (2007)

So time to act is now.

You÷Ôe Faithfully,
Mr. Williams Wilcox
+44-702-407-7710
www.freelotto.com


CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF FREE AWARD LOTTERY
COMPANY.


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