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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 lottery Board <claim_ukpaymentagent@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:15:49 +0200
Subject: Official Prize Notification..............


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

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail
address emerged as one of two winners in the category \"D\" with the following winning information:

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"D\" winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;

Agents Name: Mr.James keegan
Email:claim_ukpaymentagent@yahoo.co.uk


Please note; You are hereby advice to send the asign Fiduciary Agent,
details below for Processing of your Claims;

(1.)FULL NAME :
(2.)FULL ADDRESS :
(3)NATIONALITY :
(4)AGE :
(5)OCCUPATION :
(6)TELEPHONE NUMBER :
(7 )DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION :
(9) TOTAL AMOUNT WON :
(10)MARITAL STATUS :
(11)PRESENT COUNTRY :

Congratulations once more from our members and staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Helen Anderson.

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