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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: Uk National Lottery <uk.claimsagent2@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:07:25 +0100 (BST)
Subject: {Disarmed} CONTACT PAYMENT DELIVERY





UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER


Attention: WINNER,

TICKET No: 20511465463-7644

According to the notification that you received. I am pleased to announce that our successful first quarter of Fiscal Year 2007 will result in a record-breaking first quarter transfer the amount of £1,000,000.00 (British Pounds).

You should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this years lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 250,000 websites on the internet. Each email address was attached to a File REF: number UKNL-L/200-26937 Your email address was selected along with others as winners.

The process for claiming your win has been made very simple so that by the end of two weeks at most, you are assured of having received your cash prize of 1,000,000 Pounds. However, Scarlet Courier Delivery Services are responsible for sending you the your Certified Cheque and the original copies of the documents which will require your signature. When the documents are couriered to you, you would sign them and return them to the courier company, from there it would be forwarded to our Lottery headquarters. Please oblige to follow the Scarlet Courier instructions so the document can get to your present address on time.

You are to contact the Delivery officer of the Payment Parastatal with the following information below:

Contact Person: Mr. Patrick M Williams
E-mail: contact.delivery@scarletuk.net

Telephone +44 7045708089

Name:
Address:
Phone and Fax Number:
Ticket and ID Number:

Note: The Scarlet Courier Company Open 7 days 8am-11pm

You are required to give The Courier Company your Name, telephone number, Amount Won and address in case they need to contact you regarding the delivery. This information will not be kept by Scarlet Courier or used by any other third party.

Do ensure to inform me of your further correspondence with the courier in order for me to advice you on further actions to take in ensuring that your winnings is successfully collected by you.

Note:Make sure you file your claims properly to the courier officer,winning prize,ticket number.At the time of payment of winning prize.

Robert Gooch,
UK National Lottery Claims Agent.




Yours faithfully,
Mr. Michael Anderson Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.






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