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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: yawosafo111@comcast.net (CAMELOT GROUP LOTTO)
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:57:00 +0000
Subject: Congratulation..............Dear Lucky Winner, contact ( Mr Charles McCoy. with this Email:camelot_lotterypayclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk for your claim

The Camelot Group,
operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD


WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Camelot Group,organisers of National Lottery online draw wishes to inform you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lotteryinternational program held on wednesday 3rd of october 2007.Your email account have been picked as awinner of a lump sum pay total of £1,23O,310(One Million Two Hundred and Thirty Thousand Three Hundred and Ten Pounds Sterling) . This is from a total cash prize of £8,612,170GBPshared amongst the (7)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.

All participants for this online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over 100,000names database, union associations,and corporate bodies that are listed online.This prmotion takes places. All winning must be claimed notlater than 1 4 working days from this notification. After this time allunclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until yourclaims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is partofour security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Your winning details are :- TicketNo:22-1356-4096-988,Serial N0: A069-07,Lucky N0:04-33-34-38-39-49-(23 AS BONUSBALL), File REFNo:UKL/74-A0802742007,BATCH N?.: 2007UKL-01

To Process and claim your prize, do contact our overseas winners claim agent below for validation and funds release:

Mr Charles McCoy.
PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
26 Stanhope Road
Kent CT14 6AD London
United Kingdom
Email:camelot_lotterypayclaimoffice2@yahoo.co.uk
T ell: +44- 704-573-6915

***IMPORTANT*** FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be duly processed and settlement made upon certification.Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space provided below for record purposes to facilitate our immediate commencement of your claims process. The completed form should be sent to your claims agent for immediate commencement of prize remittance

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULLNAMES:________2.ADDRESS:__________CITY________STATEe_________POSTCODE______COUNTRY

3.SEX:_______4.AGE:________5.OCCUPATION:__________6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Mr.James Irvin.
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

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