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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?UK=20Lottery=20Organization?= <ukwins1818@yahoo.dk>
Reply-To: chrismaroadds@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:58:11 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION. TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DE


Jeg har en ny e-mail-adresse!Nu kan du e-maile mig på: ukwins1818@yahoo.dk



- - UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION. TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT. TELEPHONE: +44 03-590-2994. If you are the correct owner of this email address then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail address free-ticket winning draws of 29th August 2007 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address won you the sweeptakes in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6Million. Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583. You are to contact Mr Chris Maro on the below email address chrismaroadds@yahoo.com.hk for available options on how to receive your winnings fund. Note that Mr Chris Maro might fail to recognise you as the true winner and receiver of the US$4,600,000 if you fail to include the following in your contact mail to him:


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