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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: "YAHOO BETA-MAIL INC." <yah.inc45@hotmail.co.uk>
Reply-To: <y.betamail@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:19:14 +0000
Subject: Congratulations Yahoo! Inc.{ Notification}.





Dear Lucky Winner

CONGRATULATIONS!!


This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds (£500,000.00) in the YEAR 2006/2007 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! Subscribers are required to switch to. YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online. Among the Millions that subscribed at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others, we only selected THREE (3) candidates as our winners, after a random selection process by Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidates applying. We congratulate you for being one of the selected subscribers.





PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim Agent Mr. Gulf Vein who will issue you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our regional office in London, United Kingdom. And your prize money will be released to you from any of our regional promotion banks as directed by the claim agent. YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of notification in which prize has been won. Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be forfeited.







IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:

Batch number..................YBM-EBS-390AF Reff number.....................YBM-EBS-719AF Winning number..............YBM-EBS-798AF

You are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him;




You are therefore advised to send the following information to them in other to facilitate the processing of your fund { Identification Numbers & Personal Information}

MR. GULF VEIN
Claims Agent & Verification Officer.
Email: customerservices@ukwindows-live.net
Tel Phone :+447031947265
London,United Kingdom,Great Britain



PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1. Full Name:..............................................................
2. Nationality:............................................................3. Contact Address:..................................................4. Telephone Number:..............................................
5. Fax Number:..........................................................6. Date of Birth:..........................................................
7. Occupation.............................................................8. Age...........................................................................
9. Sex...........................................................................
10. Alternative E-mail address:...............................
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficiary incase.............




You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid "Double Claim" and abuse of this program until your prize is paid to you.


We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!

You are required to select among the payment methods below:

1. You are to travel down to our office here in London for pick up your winning cheque of £500,000.00 pounds sterlings with your documents.

2. A cheque of £500,000.00 pounds sterlings will be delivered to you by our affiliated courier company.

This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as will be directed by the United Kingdom Claim/verification agent.


Thanks to our major network promoters:aol.co.uk and hotmail.com



Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserve

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