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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: "Award Promotions!!" <info_notice02@core.com>
Reply-To: ukfiduciaryspencer2@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:58:25 -0400
Subject: Lotto Promo!!!


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<div style="visibility: visible;" id="message2791389395742441789254404454711035151225178" class="msgbody clearfix"> <div id="yiv1636450546"> <table width="553" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_top.gif" alt="The National Lottery" /></strong></td></tr> <tr> <td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"><br />
</td> <td width="10"><strong><img width="10" height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td> <td width="530" style="line-height: 12pt;" class="normal"> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Dear
Winner,                                                                              Your ref: 6525/07</strong></font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><strong>The National Lottery is pleased to inform you that you emerged a winner of<br />£3,000000 GBP  in the last concluded National Lottery online draws on<br />19th July,2007.<br />    However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to <br />different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. After this automated <br />computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten
winners in the FIRST category for the THIRD prize. </strong></font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be <br />transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, <br />verifications,validations and satisfactory report.</strong></font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Fill in the information below and send it to the Lottery Fiduciary agent with the following email address.</strong><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Name:Mr Williams Spencer<br />E-mail Address:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><u>E-mail Address:- <span style="font-style: italic;">ukfiduciaryspencer3@yahoo.co.uk</span></u><u><font color="#003399"><a href="http://us.f552.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=webnotix@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:webnotix@yahoo.co.uk" rel="nofollow"><em><span id="lw_1184840064_0"></span></em></a></font></u></span></strong></font></font></div>
<div>                               Telephone :<b><font size="2">+447031947253</font></b></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>1.First Name:<br />2.Last Name:<br />3.Your Ref:<br />4.Address:<br />5.Country:</strong></font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>6.Telephone:<br />7.Occupation:<br />8.Age:<br />9.Preffered payment Mode:<br />(a) Cheque (b) Bank Transfer</strong> </font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><strong>Congratulations.</strong></font></div> <div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong><u>Sir. Richard K. Lloyd<br />Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)</u></strong></font></div><u> </u><div><u><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong><u>The <span id="lw_1184840064_1" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;">UK</span> Online
Lottery</u></strong></font></u></div></td> <td width="9"><strong><img width="9" height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td> <td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"><br />
</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_bottom.gif" /></strong></td></tr> <tr> <td height="30" colspan="5"><strong><img width="1" height="30" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td></tr></tbody></table> <table width="553" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="2"><br />
</td> <td width="10"><strong><img width="10" height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td> <td width="530" style="line-height: 12pt;" class="normal"><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><strong>Players must be 16 or over. Terms and Conditions, Games Rules and Procedures apply. <br /><br />Camelot Group plc Registered Office: Tolpits Lane, </strong><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 1em;" id="lw_1178237451_4"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; height: 1em;" id="lw_1183882485_4"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); height: 1em;" id="lw_118388
69
88_1"><span id="lw_1184840064_2" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;">Watford, Herts, WD18 9RN</span></span></span></strong></span><strong> <br />Registered in England and </strong><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); height: 1em;" id="lw_1178237451_5"><strong><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); height: 1em;" id="lw_1183882485_5"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); height: 1em;" id="lw_1183886988_2"><span id="lw_1184840064_3" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;">Wales</span></span></span></strong></span><strong> No. 2822203 </strong></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>




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